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LUCIA LUCAS
BARITONE
BIOGRAPHY
Named one of the top voices of 2023 by Operawire, Lucia Lucas' voice has been described as “a voluminous, incredibly beautiful, warm, deep baritone, which she can also use crisply and forcefully…” (Süddeutsche Zeitung). Trained by Richard Stilwell, she is an alum of The Santa Fe Opera apprentice program, Chicago Opera Theater, and The Deutsche Oper Berlin. Her core repertoire includes heldenbariton and full lyric baritone with such roles as Wotan, Holländer, Telramund, Rigoletto, Ford, Macbeth, Iago, and Renato.
This summer, she reprises the title role in Lili Elbe in the American premiere with Santa Fe Opera, a role in which she originated last year at the Theater St. Gallen in Switzerland. The production won “Best World Premiere” at the 2024 Oper! Awards, and Lucia’s performance was described by Tagblatt as “…sung in a ravishing and extremely multifaceted manner.” Future seasons will bring her back to Verdi with Rigoletto and Otello as well as another soon to be announced world premiere.
Most recently, Lucia made many important house débuts at The Metropolitan Opera, English National Opera and her house début at Lyric Opera of Chicago in the world premiere of Proximity with Caroline Shaw and Yuval Sharon directing. In addition, her portrayal of Gretch in The Met HD series was broadcast around the world and can still be viewed with Met Opera on demand.
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ILucia made a triumphant début in the title role of Don Giovanni with Tulsa Opera, with Tulsa World exclaiming, “In the title role, Lucia Lucas is nothing short of a revelation. She possesses a voice that can rattle the rafters with its power, without ever sacrificing subtlety of expression. It is a voice filled with character in every sense of the word.”
Moreover, Lucia’s international career has led her to London, Dublin, Torino, Berlin, NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, and Daegu Korea. Lucia performs in various art and fringe festivals and prides herself on multidisciplinary projects. During the pandemic she produced multiple opera music video shorts which were part of Wuppertaler Bühnen’s award winning digital season. Also during this time, she wrote and performed a German Radioplay based on her blog writings entitled “Die Arbeit an der Rolle” (originally “How to efficiently learn a role”). This scripted radio play won the Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden 2022. She was also featured on GRAMMY.com’s TRANScendent Sounds 2022 with another music video of her creation.
Born and raised in Sacramento, CA, Lucia was primarily an instrumentalist until college. After dual majoring in voice and french horn, she moved to Chicago focusing solely on voice for her Masters and Artist Diploma.
Current as of October 6, 2025
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
“... Lucas is in her element…” – Musical America
The World’s Wife – “Lucas is in her element, too. Green's revised vocal writing draws on both her dark, resonant lower range as well as her heroically hefted upper register. Whether whispering, belting out top notes, or floating up to a comfortable falsetto, she's entirely unfazed. She also displays a tangible understanding of the text and its myriad meanings. Take, for example, her warm portrayal of the widowed Anne Hathaway, imagining Shakespeare had "written her, the bed a page beneath his writer's hands." She's powerful as well as Mrs Beast, rattling through a catalogue of women dealt unplayable hands, from the Little Mermaid to Princess Diana."
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"... Lucas’s tender voice…” – The New York Times
Proximity – “Shaw renders a car’s GPS as an electronically processed voice that veers from turn-left instructions to poetic flights, yielding to an introspective aria just right for Lucas’s tender voice.”
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“...rarely has one experienced such a powerfully clear-singing, dramatically intense Wotan..." – Volksstimme
Die Walküre – “Rarely has one experienced such a powerfully clear-singing, dramatically intense Wotan. The act 2 Monologue stunned with excitement and power, but impressive the intimacy with which Lucia Lucas sang and played the relationship with Brünnhilde.”
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"...combines an aggressive female physicality with the noble elegance of the deep male voice..." – Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Les contes d’Hoffmann – “She combines an aggressive female physicality with the noble elegance of the deep male voice. This makes for a fascinating contradiction.”
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"...dark colored and threatening sounding depths..." – Online Musik Magazin
Goetterdaemrung – "Lucia Lucas convinces as a grim Hagen with dark colored and threatening sounding depths."