The young lyric soprano Lydia Teuscher was born in Germany and studied at the Welsh College of Music and Drama and at the Hochschule für Musik in Mannheim. She took part in masterclasses with Felicity Lott and Graham Johnson.

She has appeared as Clio in Handel’s Il parnasso in festa with the Göttingen Handel Festival, as Pamina in a production of Die Zauberflöte by Christoph Loy in Rottweil and St Georgen, as Valencienne in Die lustige Witwe with the Nationaltheater Mannheim and as Poussette in Manon with the Stadttheater in Heidelberg.

On the concert platform she has appeared with Graham Johnson in recital in Cologne and Antwerp, with Helmuth Rilling and the Bachakademie Stuttgart, the Ludwigsburger Festspiele, Kammer-musikfestival Schloss Moritzburg, the Hamburg Camerata, the Barockorchester L’Arco, the Fronteras Festival London and the São Paolo Roberto Monczuk Festival. She has also sung Mozart’s Requiem with The Hanover Band in Brighton and London. She made her Wigmore Hall début in a joint recital with John Mark Ainsley and Graham Johnson and from September 2006 joins the Semperoper in Dresden, singing the rôles of Pamina, Susanna, Nanetta and Gretel.