Ailish Tynan

Soprano

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Biography

Irish soprano Ailish Tynan won the 2003 Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. Ailish was a member of the prestigious Vilar Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and a BBC New Generation Artist, where she recorded and performed prolifically with the BBC orchestras and in recital.

Ailish established herself with operatic roles including Gretel Hänsel und Gretel (The Royal Opera, Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera); Madame Cortese Il viaggio a Reims Marzelline Fidelio and Madame Podtotshina’s Daughter in Shostakovich’s The Nose (The Royal Opera); Vixen The Cunning Little Vixen (Grange Park Opera); Tigrane Radamisto (English National Opera); Papagena Die Zauberflöte (Teatro alla Scala and The Royal Opera); Despina Così fan tutte (Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse); Héro Béatrice et Bénédict (Houston Grand Opera, Opéra Comique and Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg) Sophie Der Rosenkavalier, Nannetta Falstaff and Atalanta Xerxes (Royal Swedish Opera); and Miss Wordsworth Albert Herring (Opéra Comique and Opéra de Rouen).

Among her notable concert appearances are Mahler Symphony No.8 (LSO under Valery Gergiev, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi, Philharmonia under Lorin Maazel and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Sir Antonio Pappano); Mahler Symphony No.4 (Prague Symphony Orchestra under Jac van Steen and the Hallé under Sir Mark Elder) and Mahler Symphony No. 2 (Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Myung-whun Chung); Verdi Requiem (Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele under Michael Hofstetter); Haydn The Creation (CBSO under Andris Nelsons); Handel Messiah (Academy of Ancient Music under Richard Egarr) and Vaughan Williams Hodie at the Royal Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. She has appeared at both first and last night of the BBC Proms with highlights including Bella A Midsummer Marriage (BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis) and Glière’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Kirill Karabits).

Ailish is a passionate recitalist and works regularly with pianists including Iain Burnside, James Baillieu and Graham Johnson and Simon Lepper, giving recitals at venues and festivals including Wigmore Hall, Edinburgh, City of London, Gregynog, St. Magnus, Brighton and West Cork Music Festivals, the Vinterfespill in Norway and for the Prince of Monaco in the Irish Embassy in Paris. She has performed the world premiere of Nuit d’Afrique written for her by Judith Weir, at Wigmore Hall.

Her numerous recordings include Fauré Mélodies (Opus Arte), Nacht und Träume (Delphian) and An Irish Songbook with pianist Iain Burnside; Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music (EMI); and Mahler Symphony No.8 with the LSO under Valery Gergiev (LSO Live) and Philharmonia Orchestra under Lorin Maazel (Signum Classics). Ailish has presented several episodes of Saturday Classics for the BBC and has appeared on BBC Proms Extra as a TV pundit. Additionally, she has been a Jury member for the Song Prize at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World and Wigmore Hall Song Competition.

Highlights in future seasons include Mahler Symphony No.8 under Marc Albrecht in her debut with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Recitals at Wigmore Hall, her Carnegie Hall debut with The English Concert, Verdi Requiem at King’s College Cambridge, and a much-anticipated return to Grange Park Opera.

Ailish Tynan is represented by SSArtists worldwide

Reviews

Podtotshina’s Daughter / The Nose / Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / 2016
“Ailish Tynan floated the Mourning Woman’s lament in the cathedral with grace and feeling"
(Opera Today)

“there are notable standouts:... Helene Schneiderman as Pelageya Podtotshina; and Ailish Tynan as her daughter (their trio with Kovalov is one of the few moments of lyrical expansion, with Tynan radiant on the top line).”
(The Sunday Times)

Anna / Intermezzo / Garsington Opera / 2015
"Ailish Tynan gave a winning performance as the Storchs’ much put-upon maid, Anna"
(Classicalsource)

Gretel / Hansel & Gretel / Welsh National Opera / 2015
“Tynan’s Gretel was a delight, her sound bright and fresh, and graced with passages of lyrical tenderness”
(Opera)

“…the voices are better matched than any to date…. Tynan delivers her fresh, bright sound with just the right amount of bloom. Together, they judge everything beautifully, the words of David Pountney’s translation always crystal clear.”
(The Guardian)