Australian/British lyric baritone Lachlann Lawton was a 2022 and 2024 Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award Finalist and John Wegner Award recipient. He is a 2024 and 2025 Young Artist with Opera Queensland, and 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 graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music’s Master of Music program as a Waverly Scholarship recipient and studied with Quentin Hayes. He completed a Graduate Diploma and Bachelor of Music at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). 

Recent engagements include Anthony Hope (Sweeney Todd) for Victorian Opera and Dubai Opera,  Sailor and Aeneas cover (Dido and Aeneas) for Opera Queensland, Samuel (The Pirates of Penzance), Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), Station Master (Eucalyptus), Schaunard (La Bohème), Cinderella’s Prince and the Wolf (Into The Woods), Morales (Carmen), Marchese d’Obiney (La Traviata), Duke Robert (Iolanta) for West Australian Opera.