ENO Orpheus in the Underworld - Lucia Lucas

Lucia Lucas

Baritone

Lucia Lucas has been described as possessing ‘arguably one of the most powerful and beautiful baritone voices you could hear’ (The Side Balcony).

Previously for ENO: A Sacristan, Tosca, Public Opinion Orpheus in the Underworld

Career Highlights

She was a member of the Young Artists Program at the Santa Fe Opera and the recipient of a scholarship for an engagement at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

After festival engagements in Berlin and with the Theater Heidelberg, she joined the opera company of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. Here she was able to demonstrate her artistic versatility with roles including Leporello Don Giovanni, Fasolt Das Rheingold, Marcello La bohème, Ford Falstaff and Escamillo Carmen. She performed Le Grand-Prêtre Samson et Dalila (Staatstheater Darmstadt), the Four Villains The Tales of Hoffmann, Tschelio The Love for Three Oranges and the Commendatore Don Giovanni (Wuppertal Opera), Sharpless Madama Butterfly (Dublin Lyric Opera) and Tschelio (Aalto-Musiktheater Essen).

In 2018 she gave her successful debut as Wotan Die Walküre (Theater Magdeburg), and celebrated her American debut in the title role of Don Giovanni (Tulsa Opera).

Forthcoming projects include: Rigoletto Rigoletto and Balstrode Peter Grimes.

Last updated: 30th December 2022