He then studied history of art at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was a choral scholar, before training as a singer at the Royal Academy of Music and the National Opera Studio.
Within the United Kingdom, Ed Lyon has appeared for five of the country's six main opera companies.
His roles on the main stage of the Royal Opera House include Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pane in La Calisto, Hylas in Les Troyens[5] and dancing master in Ariadne auf Naxos.
[8] He returned to Scottish Opera in February 2016 to sing Lurcanio in Handel's Ariodante.
[10][11][12] Also active as a concert singer, Lyon's repertoire includes oratorios such as Handel's Messiah and Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, as well as Latin-language religious music like Bach's Mass in B minor and Mozart's Requiem.