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Ashlyn
Tymms

Mezzo-soprano

In 2024, Ashlyn Tymms sang Ježibaba in Rusalka and Dido in Dido and Aeneas for West Australian Opera and Fanny Price in Mansfield Park for New Zealand Opera. She took the alto solos in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, Mozart’s Requiem and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 for West Australian Symphony. She also sang the Beethoven with the Queensland Symphony and Bach’s St. John Passion with the Melbourne Symphony.

In 2025, she makes her mainstage début at Opera Australia – singing Ježibaba (Rusalka) and Dorothée (Cinderella).

Ashlyn’s 2022 performances included Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Melbourne Symphony and Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with the West Australian Symphony. She also made her Sydney Opera House début in Handel’s Messiah.

For West Australian Opera, she has sung Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel) and Flora (La traviata); in 2023, Ashlyn returned to WAO as Emilia (Otello) and in the title role in Carmen.

Ashlyn graduated as a HF Music Scholar at the Royal College of Music, London (Masters of Vocal Performance with Distinction) and was awarded the Outstanding Australian Musician Award by the Royal Over-Seas League, London.

She sang Rosimonda in Handel's Faramondo at the London Handel Festival. Other roles include Judith in the world premiere of The Two Sisters with Tête à Tête Opera, La marchande de journaux in Poulenc’s Les mamelles de Tirésias, Euridice in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, the title role in Dido and Aeneas, Eurydice in Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld and Berenice in Rossini’s L’occasione fa il ladro.

© Patrick Togher Artists’ Management 2024

Bio taken from the last program in which Ashlyn appears

photo credit Alana Blowfield

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