The Anglo-Spanish mezzo Karina Lucas has in a short time made a significant

impact on British opera. 

Karina Lucas trained at the Royal Northern College of Music (Allcard Award;

Musicians Benevolant Fund Award; Annie Ridyard Award), where she received

a First Class Honours Degree and a Distinction for her Post Graduate Diploma;

before pursuing further studies at the National Opera Studio, where her studies

were supported by Glyndebourne Festival Opera. She currently studies with

Barbara Robotham.

Her engagements include: Third Lady (Die Zauberflote) and Pinocchio for

Opera North; Witch (Macbeth) for Scottish Opera; Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte) for

the Ryedale Festival; and Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte), Leila (Iolanthe),

Maddalena (Rigoletto), Wowkle (La Fanciulla del West) and Nymph (Rusalka)

for Grange Park Opera. 

Further engagements include: Baba the Turk (The Rake’s Progress), Pauline

(Pikovaya Dama), Mother, Granny, Giant (Into the Woods) and Meg Page

(Falstaff) for the Royal Northern College of Music; Annina (La Traviata) for

Pimlico Opera; Sesto (Giulio Cesare) for the Yorke Trust; and Olga (Eugene

Onegin) for Opera 74.

Karina Lucas was personally selected by Jonathan Dove to sing the role of

Sara in his opera Tobias and the Angel for the re-opening of the Young Vic

Theatre.  Her performance was subsequently recorded for commercial release

at a later date.

Karina also appears regularly on the concert platform. Performances include

Mendelssohn’s Elijah for Ulverston Choral Society, Rossini’s Petite Messe

Solenelle and Mozart’s Requiem for Wetherby Choral Society, Bach St John’s

Passion for Sheffield Bach Choir, Berkeley’s Four Poems by St Teresa of Avila

for Lake District Summer Music, Rachmaninov’s Vespers and Britten’s Rejoice

in the Lamb with Huddersfield Choral Society (conducted by Martyn Brabbins),

Handel’s Messiah for both Blackburn and Salford Choral Society, Mozart’s

Requiem for Viva (conducted by Nicholas Kok), Elgar’s Sea Pictures with the

Bath Philharmonia, Elgar’s The Music Makers with Rossini’s Stabat Mater for

Lytham St Annes Choral Society and Duruflé’s Requiem for Festival La Tour in

Perpignon, France.

Future engagements include Flora (The Enchanted Pig) at the Royal Opera

House Covent Garden, the Victory Theater on Broadway and on tour

throughout the United Kingdom.  Karina Lucas is generously supported by the

Peter Moores Foundation.

 

KARINA LUCAS

Vocal Category: Mezzo

Representation: General Mngmt

Dorabella. Cosi Fan Tutte, Grange

Park Opera

Karina Lucas as Dorabella, using her

beautiful voice freely in every register.

Edward Greenfield, The Guardian

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Career Highlights

Pinnocchio: Opera North

Third Lady: Opera North

Dorabella: Grange Park Opera

Leila (Iolanthe): Grange Park Opera

Sara (Tobias and the Angel): Young Vic

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