Lucy Schaufer has earned critical and popular acclaim as a versatile and

distinctive singing actress on the stages of important opera companies,

including the Metropolitan Opera (Page in Salome , Flowermaiden in Parsifal ,

and Suzuki in Madama Butterfly ), Los Angeles Opera (Cherubino in Le Nozze

di Figaro , the title role in Hansel and Gretel , and Erika in Vanessa ),

Washington National Opera and Opera du Rhin Strasbourg (Erika), Opera de

Monte Carlo (Erika and Sesto in Giulio Cesare ), Hamburg State Opera

(Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier and Cornelia in Giulio Cesare ), Opera der

Stadt Köln (Charlotte in Werther , Olga in Eugene Onegin and Cherubino),

New Israeli Opera (Smeraldine in The Love for Three Oranges ), English

National Opera (title role in Birtwistle's Punch and Judy , Clare de Loone in

On the Town, and Amastris in Xerxes ), Opera North (Zerlina in Don Giovanni

and Johanna in Sweeney Todd ), Garsington Opera Festival (Europa in Die

Liebe der Danae ), and Music Theatre Wales/ROH2 (Thea in The Knot

Garden ).

As a performer in musical theatre, she was Margaret Johnson in the

European premiere of Adam Guettel's The Light in the Piazza for The Curve –

Leicester and was an original member of City Center's Encores! appearing in

performances of Lady in the Dark and One Touch of Venus .  She also

appeared as Miss Hyde in Very Warm for May conducted by John McGlinn at

Weill Recital Hall.

Recordings include Kurt Weill's The Firebrand of Florence (BBCSO/Sir

Andrew Davies), Ira Gershwin at 100: Celebration at Carnegie Hall (PBS

TV/Rob Fisher), Der Rosenkavalier (ARTE/Simone Young) and Paul Bowles's

The Wind Remains (Eos Ensemble/Jonathan Sheffer) for BMG.

In the concert hall, Ms. Schaufer has performed Zeisl's Requiem Ebraico and

Bernstein's Kaddish Symphony (Gulbenkian Orchestra), Elgar's Sea Pictures

and Musicmakers (Barcelona), songs by Igor Stravinsky with the City of

Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, as guest soloist performing Canteloube's

Songs of the Auvergne with the New York City Ballet, and as 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.”

Notable conductors with whom she has worked include Placido Domingo,

Lawrence Foster, Edward Gardner, Valery Gergiev, Alan Gilbert, Julius Rudel,

Patrick Summers, Simone Young, Kent Nagano, Peter Schneider, Graeme

Jenkins, Steuart Bedford, Antonello Allemandi, Emmanuel Joel, and Sakari

Oramo. 

Notable directors include Christopher Alden, John Cox, Paul Curran, Martin

Duncan, David Fielding, Douglas Fitch, Jürgen Flimm, Stanley Garner, Ian

Judge, Jude Kelly, Paul Kerryson, Daniel Kramer, Gunter Krämer, Marco

Arturo Marelli, and David McVicar.

Winner of the Vocal Prize at the Aspen Music Festival, she 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.

 

LUCY SCHAUFER

Vocal Category: Mezzo

Representation: Europe/Sundry Terrs

Hansel und Gretel/LA Opera

Superbly dispatched, mezzo-soprano Lucy

Schaufer, whose Cherubino was a

highlight here last season also proved an

impressive Hansel, showcasing a suitably

innocent, clear tone and convincingly

portraying the young boy's impish nature."

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Career Highlights

Suzuki: Metropolitan, Houston

Erika (Vanessa): LA Opera, Washington,

Monte Carlo, Strasbourg

Sesto/Cornelia: Monte Carlo, Hamburg

Cherubino: LA Opera, Cologne

Judy (Puch and Judy): ENO

Octavian: Hamburg

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