Australian/British Lyric Baritone Lachlann Lawton is a 2024 Young Artist and was a 2022 Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award Finalist and John Wegner Award recipient. He is a former Wesfarmers Arts Young Artist, Bendat Scholarship winner, and proud recipient of the Roberts Emerging Artist Fund at West Australian Opera. 

He is a recent graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music’s Master’s program as a Waverly Scholarship recipient and studied with Quentin Hayes. He was a 2019 finalist in the Joan and Michael Kennedy Award for the Singing of Strauss. 

Recent engagements include Jupiter (Semele) for HIP Company, the title role in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Station Master in Jonathan Mill’s new opera Eucalyptus, Elijah a staged production of Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Schaunard (La Boheme), Marchese d’Obiney (La Traviata), Morales (Carmen), The Wolf/Cinderella’s Prince (Into The Woods), Duke Robert (Iolanta), Sciarrone (Tosca) for West Australian Opera, and Sonora (La Fanciulla del West) for Freeze Frame Opera.    

Lachlann is a regular soloist and member of the St Georges Cathedral Consort directed by Dr Joseph Nolan. 

Image and text: Courtesy of Opera Queensland

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