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LUCIA LUCAS
BARITONE
BIOGRAPHY
Hailed as “one of the most powerful and beautiful baritone voices you could hear” (The Side Balcony), American baritone Lucia Lucas is making waves on the operatic main stages. Lucas has resided in Germany for the past decade and has performed in cities all over the globe, including Dublin, London, Brussels, Berlin, Torino, Essen, Daegu, Korea, and the United States.
At Theater St. Gallen in Switzerland, she created the title role of Lili Elbe in the world premiere of Tobias Picker’s eponymous opera, expressly composed for her and for which she also served as dramaturg. Her performance as Lili was described by Tagblatt as “…sung in a ravishing and extremely multifaceted manner…” Mannschaft raved, “Lucia Lucas brings a fundamental credibility to Lili Elbe that is important… [she] sings the title role with an impressive baritone and carries the production confidently…” The production won ‘Best World Premiere’ at the 2024 Oper! Awards.
Ms. Lucas made her Metropolitan Opera début as Angelotti in Tosca and returned as Gretch in their new production of Fedora. She also joined Hawaii Opera Theatre as Silvio in Pagliacci, Birmingham Opera in the UK to sing Merlin in Michael Tippett’s New Year, the Ragazze Quartet for performances of Tom W. Green’s The World’s Wife in Amsterdam at the Muziekgebouw and in Utrecht at the What You See festival and returned to The Metropolitan Opera for their productions of Roméo et Juliette and La rondine. This season, Ms. Lucas joins Ragazze Quartet for more performances of The World’s Wife in both Amsterdam and Bruges, and she joins Beth Morrison Projects for the world premiere of Paola Prestini’s and Brenda Shaughnessy’s Sensorium Ex, a multi-modal arts project exploring fundamental questions of what it means to have voice, and the nature of voice beyond language.
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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."
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