Winner of the Vocal Prize at the Aspen Music Festival, Lucy Schaufer has performed at Tanglewood, Pacific Music Festival and with The New York Festival of Song.
A proponent of American music, she sang Ava in the world premiere of Stewart Wallace's Hopper's Wife and the German premiere of Michael Tilson Thomas's The Diary of Anne Frank with the Gürzenich Orchestra (Lawrence Foster.)
The "impassioned brilliance" of her Erika in Barber's Vanessa for Monte Carlo led to invitations to revive the role for Strasbourg, Washington, Los Angeles and to her debut with The Metropolitan Opera as Suzuki Madama Butterfly (Julius Rudel) and Page Salome (Valery Gergiev.)
Recent engagements include Clare de Loone On the Town (ENO), Thea The Knot Garden (ROH2/Music Theatre Wales), Cornelia Giulio Cesare (Hamburg), Amastris Xerxes (ENO), Zeisl's Requiem Ebraico and Bernstein's Kaddish Symphony (Gulbenkian Orchestra), Flowermaiden Parsifal (MET), Elgar Sea Pictures/Musicmakers (Barcelona), and as guest soloist performing Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne with the New York City Ballet.
Critical acclaim for her Cherubino heralded her return to Los Angeles, and followed for her Prince Orlofsky in Placido Domingo & Friends: LA Opera's 20th Anniversary Gala, when the LA Times singled her out as "the evening's most alluring singer."
Recordings: Kurt Weill's The Firebrand of Florence (BBCSO/Andrew Davies), Ira Gershwin at 100: Celebration at Carnegie Hall (PBS TV) and Paul Bowles's The Wind Remains (Eos Ensemble) for BMG.
Recent engagements include title roles in Hansel and Gretel for Los Angeles Opera (Alan Gilbert), role debut as Octavian Der Rosenkavalier for Hamburg Opera (Simone Young), Judy in a new production of Birtwistle’s Punch and Judy for English National Opera (Edward Gardner) directed by Daniel Kramer.
In 08-09 Lucy will sing Claire de Loone in Jude Kelly’s critically acclaimed production of On the Town at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. www.lucyschaufer.com.
Lucy Schaufer is represented by Intermusica.
June 2008 / 303 words. Not to be altered without permission. Please destroy all previous biographical material.