Lynne has appeared with many of the world's leading conductors including Giulini, Barenboim, Mehta, Ashkenazy, Harnoncourt, Blomstedt, Gardiner, Davis, Mackerras, Bychkov, Marriner and Minkowski. She has performed at most of the world's premier venues including La Scala, Concertgebouw, Festspielhaus, Teatro Colon, Le Chatelet and (on several occasions) the Royal Albert Hall Proms. Lynne Dawson's operatic roles have included Zdenka (Le Châtelet), Fiordiligi (Naples), Iphigénie en Aulide (Aix-en-Provence), Constanze (La Monnaie), Gluck's Orfeo (Nice and Barcelona), Amenaide in Rossini's Tancredi, Handel's Cleopatra and Pamina (all at the Deutsche Staatsoper in Berlin).

Lynne Dawson has worked with some of the foremost symphony and chamber orchestras: the Vienna Philharmonic, The Berlin Philharmonic, Boston and San Francisco Symphonies, LSO, LPO, Philharmonia, as well as Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Academy of Ancient Music, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Deutsche and Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. She has appeared at the Salzburg, Vienna and Aix-en-Provence Festivals and frequently gives recitals throughout Europe.

Lynne Dawson's recordings number more than sixty CDs, including Handel's Jephtha and Saul (Philips), Bach's B minor Mass and onteverdi's Orfeo (DG), Mozart's C minor Mass (Decca), Iphigénie en Aulide (Erato), Dido and Aeneas (DG), Mozart's Vespers (EMI) and Requiem (Sony), Entführung (Decca), Beethoven's Ninth (Philips), Brahms's Requiem (EMI), Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream (Decca and EMI); Giulio Cesare and Cleopatra e Cesare (Harmonia Mundi). Current and future recordings include Handel's Ariodante (DG), Mozart's Zaide (Harmonia Mundi) Handel's Alexander Balus (Hyperion), a selection of songs by Schoeck with Julius Drake (Jecklin), Norina/Don Pasquale (Chandos) and Handel's Samson (Collins Classics). She also features on the award-winning recording of Orff's Carmina Burana with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under Herbert Blomstedt.

Recent engagements have included concert performances in France and London's South Bank as well as a leading role in the Deutsche Staatsoper's production of Eliot Carter's first ever opera "What Next" which was performed in Berlin, Chicago and New York's Carnegie Hall under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. Forthcoming work includes several recordings including Handel's "Hercules" with Marc Minkovsky for Deutsche Grammophon and a new solo disc of English music, as well as numerous concert appearances in London, Brussels, Antwerp, Florence, La Scala, Amsterdam, Edinburgh and Paris.