Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Lucy Schaufer’s recent engagements include HORTENSE The Listeners Opera Philadelphia (US premiere), HELENE Marx in London! Scottish Opera (UK premiere), MISTRESS QUICKLY Sir John in Love BARD Summer Fest, GOVERNESS Pique Dame Grange Festival, MARGRET Wozzeck Opéra de Monte-Carlo, WOMAN in The Blue Woman Royal Opera House, DOCTOR in Venables’s Olivier Award nominated 4.48 Psychosis Royal Opera House, PROTOTYPE Festival, Ensemble Intercontemporain, POLYCASTE Raising Icarus BCMG (World premiere), MADELEINE Three Decembers Opera della Luna at Wilton’s Music Hall (UK premiere), MRS JONES Street Scene Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Teatro Real Madrid MRS LOVETT Sweeney Todd Des Moines Metro Opera and was the Artistic Producer for the UK premiere of Adamo’s Little Women Opera Holland Park as well as singing Cecilia March. Future performances include MARCELLINA Le Nozze di Figaro Santa Fe Opera Festival and Palm Beach Opera.
She has performed with Los Angeles Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Washington National Opera, Dallas Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Des Moines Metro Opera, Central City Opera, New Zealand Opera, Opéra National du Rhin, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Théâtre du Châtelet, Hamburg State Opera, Oper Köln, Opéra de Lyon, Opéra du Rhin, Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, Royal Opera House, and English National Opera. In concert: London Sinfonietta, Britten Sinfonia, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, BBC Scottish Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestar Simfonica de Barcelona, Ensemble intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Gűrzenich Orchester, and the John Wilson Orchestra at the BBC Proms, and in solo recitals at Wigmore Hall, Ravinia Festival, Buxton International Festival, and Aldeburgh Festival.
Recordings include Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles – Susanna (LA Opera/Conlon/Best Opera Recording 2017), Adamo’s Becoming Santa Claus – Ib (Dallas Opera/Villaume), Bray’s Fire Burning in Snow (BCMG), Weill’s The Firebrand of Florence – Emilia (BBCSO/Sir Andrew Davies), Ira Gershwin at 100: Celebration at Carnegie Hall (PBS/Rob Fisher), Der Rosenkavalier – Octavian (ARTE/Young) and Bowles’s The Wind Remains – The Girl (BMG/EOS Ensemble/Sheffer). co-produced with ABC Classics, Lucy’s debut solo recording, CARPENTERSVILLE, was the Editor’s Choice in Classical Music Magazine. With over 75 world premieres under her belt, she dedicates her career to performing and collaborating with composers, leading Gramophone Magazine to say “She occupies an undefinable space in the ‘who’s who’ of classical music.” Shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Philharmonic Society Singer of the Year, Lucy is the Bunyan-Craig Visiting Fellow of Singing at the University of St Andrews and was a member of the 2020 Beth Morrison Projects Producer’s Academy. She is a mentor, creative producer, and Artistic Director of Wild Plum Arts.
