Lydia Teuscher

Soprano

""[Teuscher] brought a high degree of expressivity to her singing in which sparkling coloratura and neatly crafted embellishments impressed.""

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Lydia Teuscher has established herself as one of the most insightful interpreters of Baroque repertoire on the contemporary stage: her voice is widely praised for its agility and lyricism.

In the 2025/26 season Lydia performs Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle with the Tölzer Knabenchor at the Kölner Philharmonie, Bach’s Wienachtsoratorium with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Münchner Symphoniker, and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with I Pomeriggi Musicali and Diego Fasolis in Milan.

Recent concert appearances have included Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium with the Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Münchner Symphoniker, Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Estrella in concert performances of Schubert's Alfonso und Estrella with the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra and Aapo Häkkinen, Verdi's Quattro pezzi sacri with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Christian Thielemann, Haydn's Die Schöpfung with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Maxim Emelyanychev, Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya and Kazushi Ono, and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Philharmonia Zürich and Gianandrea Noseda.

On the opera stage, Lydia has sung Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) at the Salzburg Mozartwoche, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Bolshoi, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich and Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin; Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Glyndebourne Festival, Dresdner Semperoper, Staatstheater Karlsruhe and at the Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Japan; Ännchen (Der Freischütz) for the Opernhaus Zürich; Hero (Béatrice et Bénédict) at the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan; Zerlina (Don Giovanni) for the Bolshoi; and Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) for the Glyndebourne Festival, Dresdner Semperoper and Saito Kinen Festival.

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Weber's Der Freischütz | Opernhaus Zürich

Jun-Jul 2023

Lydia Teuschers Ännchen ist mit jugendlichem Klang und Leichtigkeit der ideale Kontrast und harmoniert trotzdem ideal mit Agathe.

With its youthful sound and lightness, Lydia Teuscher's Ännchen is the ideal contrast whilst still harmonising perfectly with Agathe.

Online Merker

Lydia Teuscher brillierte mit ihren beiden Arien, wobei besonders die Traumgeschichte von Nero dem Kettenhund, der ihrer Base im Traum erschienen war, zu Beginn des dritten Aktes für Freude sorgte.

Lydia Teuscher shone with her two arias, with the dream story of Nero the chain dog, who appeared to her cousin in a dream, at the beginning of the third act particularly causing joy.

Opera Gazet

Haydn's Creation | Maxim Emelyanychev | Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Oct 2022

Soloists Lydia Teuscher and Hanno Müller-Brachmann came on arm in arm for the work’s final sections, leaving no doubt as to their roles as the first humans, and were uncannily well matched in their clarity, precision and joyful freedom in tone and vocal decoration

The Scotsman

Lydia Teuscher's Concert repertoire

Brahms

Ein Deutsches Requiem

Handel

Aci, Galatea e Polifemo


Israel in Egypt


Messiah


Samson


Theodora


Gloria


Die Jahreszeiten 


Paukenmesse 


Die Schöpfung

J.S. Bach

Magnificat 


Mass in B Minor 


Matthäus-Passion 


Johannes-Passion 


Weihnachts-Oratorium

Mahler

Symphony No. 2 


Symphony No. 4 


Symphony No. 8

Mendelssohn

Elijah 


A Midsummer Night’s Dream 


Lobgesang

Mozart

Coronation Mass 


Exsultate, Jubilate 


Mass in C Minor 


Requiem

Pergolesi

Stabat Mater

Schoenberg

Pierrot lunaire

Schumann

Jungfrau, Das Paradies und die Peri

Telemann

Brockes Passion

Vivaldi

Gloria 


Magnificat

Lydia Teuscher's Opera repertoire

Berlioz

Hero, Béatrice et Bénédict

Cherubini

Marcellina, Der Wasserträger

Gluck

Eurydice, Orfeo et Euridice

Handel

Aci, Aci, Galatea e Polifemo

Hasse

Cleopatra, Marc Antonio e Cleopatra

Humperdinck

Gretel, Hänsel und Gretel

J.C. Bach

Cecilio, Lucio Silla

Lehár

Valencienne, Die lustige Witwe

Massenet

Poussette, Manon

Pfitzner

Ighino, Palestrina

Telemann

Nisibis, Miriways 


Caliste, Pastorelle en Musique 

Weber

Ännchen, Der Freischütz

Wolf Ferrari

Lucetta, Le Quattro Rustighi

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Magnificat & Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben
Bach's Mass in B Minor
Handel (arr. Mendelssohn) 'Israel in Ägypten'
Bach's Luther Kantaten
Telemann 'Miriways'