Press
Reviews for Candide at Welsh National Opera
“A vocally warm and agile Ed Lyon, whose comic timing is matched with verve by Narrator-cum-Pangloss Gillian Bevan”
The Stage
“Ed Lyon sings with lyrical clarity as Candide”
“A likeable and strongly sung performance by Ed Lyon”
“Honey-voiced Ed Lyon whose wide-eyed innocence (notwithstanding his three unintended murders) is nicely done, wistful in his lament and bringing plenty of heft in the Broadway-style 'Make our garden grow'”
Opera Today
Rave Reviews for Garsington Orfeo
“Ed Lyon’s traumatised yet gloriously lyrical Orfeo… His epic central performance culminates in a white-hot account of the virtuosic Possente Spirto”
“At the centre of it all was Ed Lyon’s Orfeo - lived, moved and sung with absolute conviction…It was magnificently paced, daringly pared back”
Opera Magazine
“Lyon has the full range of tone that the Monteverdi demands, from hushed through lustrous to dark, he decorates the text with formidable assurance”
“He dominates not only the score but all the tensions, passions and tragedy that drive Orfeo’s story. His voice can switch from lyrical to sturdy in a heartbeat, and he negotiated Monteverdi’s elaborate notation with expressive ease.”
Musical America