Lydia Teuscher was born in Freiburg, Germany, and studied at the Welsh College of Music and Drama and at the Hochschule für Musik in Mannheim. Recent highlights include the role of Caliste in staged performances of Telemann's opera »Pastorelle en Musique« with Ensemble 1700 and Dorothee Oberlinger at the Schlossstheater Neues Palais Potsdam, at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik and at the Markgräflichen Opernhaus Bayreuth, as well as Ännchen (Der Freischütz) for Opernhaus Zürich and Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem with Philhamonia Zürich under Gianandrea Noseda. Highlights in the 2021/22 season include Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale under Richard Egarr and Bach's St. John Passion with Les Violons du Roy under Bernard Labadie, Mozart and Mendelssohn concert arias with the Philharmonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under Giovanni Antonini, Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya and Kazushi Ono. In opera, Lydia Teuscher has sung Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) at the Salzburger Mozartwoche, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, the Bolshoi, the Bayerischen Staatsoper München and the Staatsoper Berlin; Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Glyndebourne Festival, the Dresden Semperoper, the Staatstheater Karlsruhe and the Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Japan; Ännchen (Der Freischütz) for the Opernhaus Zürich. She regularly collaborates with conductors such as René Jacobs, Jonathan Cohen, Emmanuelle Haïm, Sir Roger Norrington, Helmuth Rilling and Markus Stenz. Other highlights include Schoenberg's »Pierrot Lunaire« with the Bayerische Staatsoper, Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with the London Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding, Mozart's Mass in C minor with the Philharmonischen Staatsorchester Hamburg and Kent Nagano, and Bach cantatas with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and Bernard Labardie at Carnegie Hall.
Lydia Teuscher
