Baritone, Soloist

Edwin Crossley-Mercer

French · 1982

Edwin Crossley-Mercer is a French bass-baritone, born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1982. He studied at the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles and then at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, and was a pupil of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Since his opera debut in 2006 he has sung leading roles by Mozart, Rossini, Handel and Rameau at houses and festivals including Glyndebourne, Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg, and he has a particular affinity for French composers such as Berlioz, Gounod and Massenet. He is also a committed recitalist in German Lieder and French song.

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  1. Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Wikipédia Cited in Maxime Pascal conducts Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  2. Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Opéra-Comique Cited in Maxime Pascal conducts Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ. Accessed 30 September 2026.