Lionel Friend

A familiar figure in both the opera house and on the concert platform, since 2000 Lionel Friend has made debuts with Opera Australia (Arabella), Los Angeles Opera (Grendel), New Zealand Opera (Le nozze di Figaro) and conducted Dallapiccola and Mozart at Frankfurt Opera. Acclaimed in Budapest for a concert of contemporary Hungarian orchestral works, in Norway for a programme of Berg, Webern and Zemlinsky and in Aachen for Dvorák and Sibelius as well as for a concert performance of Der fliegende Holländer with London Lyric Opera and the Royal Philharmonic at London’s Barbican Hall, his current orchestral repertoire ranges from Haydn and Weber to Messiaen, Lutoslawski and Britten. Lionel Friend was educated at the Royal College of Music in London, where he won all the major conducting prizes