Lori Isley Lynn received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her Master of Music degree from Boston University. She has performed extensively in the US and created the leading roles in two new American Folk operas for their premiere performances.
In the UK, her roles include Mozart’s Blonde, Despina, Susanna, Marcellina, Pamina and Donna Anna, Puccini’s Liu, Butterfly and Mimi, Verdi’s Leonora, Desdemona, and Violetta, Bizet’s Micaela, Mascagni’s Suzel, Floyd’s Susannah, and Dinah in Gershwin’s Trouble in Tahiti.
Lori’s concert performances include Mozart’s C Minor Mass, Handel’s Dixit Dominus, Bach’s Magnificat, the Vivaldi Gloria and the Fauré and Mozart Requiems. Concert operas include Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, where she sang the roles of Donna Anna and Liza.
Her solo engagements have taken her to venues such as St. John’s Smith Square, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, St. James’s Palace, the Royal Festival Hall and the Royal Albert Hall.
In May 2003, Lori performed in an original show, Opera Café, at the Jermyn Street Theatre in London. Then, in July she sang the lead role in an award-winning production of Madame Butterfly at the world famous Minack Theatre in Cornwall.
October 2003