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Irish soprano Ailish Tynan came to prominence when she won the 2003 Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. She was part of the Vilar Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and a BBC New Generation Artist, where she actively recorded and performed with BBC Orchestras and in recital.
Ailish’s recent and upcoming appearances include the Governess in The Turn of the Screw and Despina in Cosi fan tutte for English National Opera. She will also sing The Governess at the Music in PyeongChang Festival in South Korea and she will appear as Berta in a revival of Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Glyndebourne Festival. She also created the role of Christine in the World Premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Festen for the Royal Opera directed by Richard Jones. Her concert engagements include Handel’s Messiah at the National Concert Hall; Dublin; Orff’s Carmina Burana at the Royal Festival Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Mozart's C Minor Mass at Westminster Abbey and she continues to appear at the Wigmore Hall in recital with pianists including Malcolm Martineau, Anna Tilbrook and James Baillieu.
Ailish has performed a wide range of operatic roles, including Gretel Hänsel und Gretel (Royal Ballet & Opera, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera), Erste Dame Die Zauberflöte, Berta Il barbiere di Siviglia, Madame Cortese Il viaggio a Reims, Madame Podtotshina’s Daughter The Nose (Royal Opera), Mimì La bohème, Zemfira Aleko, Vixen The Cunning Little Vixen (Grange Park Opera), Tigrane Radamisto (English National Opera), Papagena Die Zauberflöte (Teatro alla Scala), Despina Così fan tutte (Garsington Opera, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse), Héro Béatrice et Bénédict (Houston Grand Opera, Opéra Comique, Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg), Sophie Der Rosenkavalier, Nannetta Falstaff, Atalanta Xerxes (Royal Swedish Opera), and Miss Wordsworth Albert Herring (Opéra Comique, Opéra de Rouen).
Her concert performances have included Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 (Gergiev/London Symphony Orchestra, Albrecht/Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, P. Järvi/Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Maazel/Philharmonia, Pappano/Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia), Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 (van Steen/Prague Symphony Orchestra, Elder/The Hallé), Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (Chung/Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Bihlmaier/Irish National Symphony Orchestra), Verdi’s Requiem (Hofstetter/Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele), Haydn’s The Creation (Nelsons/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra), Handel’s Messiah (Egarr/Academy of Ancient Music), and Handel’s Iris Semele, and CloriClori Tirsi e Fileno (Bicket/The English Concert). She has appeared at both the first and last nights of the BBC Proms, with performances including Bella A Midsummer Marriage (Davis/BBC Symphony Orchestra) and Glière’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano (Karabits/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra).
Ailish is also an active recitalist, regularly collaborating with pianists such as Iain Burnside, James Baillieu, Graham Johnson, and Simon Lepper. She has performed at venues and festivals including Wigmore Hall, Edinburgh, City of London, Gregynog, St. Magnus, Brighton, West Cork Music Festivals, the Vinterfespill, and for the Prince of Monaco at the Irish Embassy in Paris. She gave the World Premiere of Nuit d’Afrique, a piece written for her by Judith Weir, at Wigmore Hall.
Her extensive discography includes Fauré Mélodies, Nacht und Träume, and An Irish Songbook with Iain Burnside; Handel’s Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music; and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 (Gergiev/LSO, Maazel/Philharmonia Orchestra). Ailish has presented several episodes of Saturday Classics for the BBC and appeared as a pundit on Proms Extra on television. She has also served as a jury member for the Song Prize at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World and the Wigmore Hall Song Competition.
Biography not for publication, for an up to date version please contact Oliver Clarke.
“… Ailish Tynan is superb as the Governess… The concept is ingeniously thought through, but would seem a little contrived and cerebral if it weren’t for the passion injected by outstanding individual performances. Ailish Tynan has done nothing better than this… fretful yet ethereally sung portrayal…”
(The Times)
“…Ailish Tynan as the Governess, 30 years into her hospitalization, and the soprano’s multi-layered performance was quite devastating as her fractured mind tried to make sense of both her past and her present… this was as musically distinguished a Screw as one could hope to hear.”
(Opera)
“…a stellar reading of the Governess by Ailish Tynan…”
(The Observer)
“Best and most important of all, Ailish Tynan sings the governess with an, at times, ravishing purity. It is the vocal performance that Bywater’s approach requires, alluring and fascinating…”
(The Guardian)
“Ailish Tynan relished Clori’s capriciousness, teasing her suitors shamelessly but using a wide range of vocal hues and the deep richness of her soprano to reveal the shepherdess’s alternating poses of nonchalance, sympathy and resentment… [she] made a masterclass of dramatic singing – flexible, florid, fiery.”
(Opera Today)
“Clori (beguilingly and beautifully sung by the Irish soprano Ailish Tynan)… [her] portrayal of the coquettish, inconstant Clori could not be bettered.”
(Seen & Heard International)
“It’s Ailish Tynan as Berta, his browbeaten maid, who shows how it should be done…”
(The Guardian)
“Ailish Tynan’s thrillingly sung Berta”
(MusicOMH)
“This perfect cast was further enhanced by a delightful performance by Irish soprano Ailish Tynan in the role of the maid Berta. The part is very small but Rossini rewards her with one very amusing solo which Tynan performed with great style.”
(The Express)
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