Lester Lynch, baritone
Lester Lynch has appeared with most of Europe’s and North America’s leading opera houses and companies, including Teatro alla Scala, Covent Garden, Semperoper Dresden, Baden-Baden, Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Minneapolis Opera, LA Opera, Houston Grand Opera, New York City Opera, and Washington National Opera. He has sung with the leading orchestras of the world, among them the Berlin Philharmonic with famed conductor Sir Simon Rattle, New York Philharmonic, Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, National Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and the Houston Symphony, to name a few. Mr. Lynch has received many accolades for his performances from The Pittsburgh Tribune, Opera Today, and The Guardian, among others.
In the upcoming months, the baritone will appear in two new recordings: La traviata as Germont and Un ballo in maschera as Renato. He can also be heard with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in the title of role of Verdi’s Rigoletto, in Amsterdam with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest as the title character in Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero, and as Merrivale in the debut of the opera, Goodbye, Mr. Chips by Gordon Getty that will be released on film in November. Later next season, he will also sing Tonio in Pagliacci and the Forester in The Cunning Little Vixen, and recording one of his favorite roles, Scarpia in Tosca.