Quentin’s career in opera began
with Welsh National Opera. Since then he has sung in many varied
places including St.Petersburg, Rio de Janiero, Trondheim(Norway),
Accra(Ghana) and Leon(Nicaragua).
In 1993 he was winner of the VARA
Dutch Radio Prize at the Belveredere Competition, Vienna, as a
result of which he has worked extensively in Europe (namely Germany,
Holland and Belgium). This last season he has sung Achilles
(Achilles et Penthésilea) in Montpellier, Enrico (Lucia di
Lammermoor) in Dublin and Sonora( La Fanciulla del West) for Grange
Park Opera (Hampshire).
He has appeared frequently at the
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam where works have included Britten’s War
Requiem, Elijah, Where the Wild Things are, Les Troyens and
Messiaen’s St. Francoise d’Assise. He is due to return there next
year for Ades’ The Tempest.
For the past nine years he has
been a principal artist at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
where roles have included Ping (Turandot), Herald (Lohengrin),
Schaunard(La Bohème), Ned Keene (Peter Grimes) and in September this
year Happy (La Fanciulla del West).
Lyndall works as a repetiteur and accompanist for many UK companies,
including English Touring Opera, Opera Holland Park, European
Chamber Opera, Grange Park Opera and Buxton Festival Opera.
In recent years Lyndall has received sponsorship and awards from the
Friends of Covent Garden, the Brandenburg Sinfonia, Tillett Trust,
Australian Musica Foundation, Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Australia
Council for the Arts, Freedman Foundation and the Australian Opera &
Arts Support Group.
Concert Diary entry