Lucy Schaufer

Ph. Kevin Leighton
Ph. Kevin Leighton
Last update: 24/04/2019
Lucy Schaufer’s most recent and future engagements include JENNY Knussen’s Higglety Pigglety Pop Aldeburgh Festival and the Barbican, SUZUKI Madama Butterfly New Zealand Opera, DER TROMMLER Der Kaiser von Atlantis Opéra de Lyon, SOLOIST George Benjamin’s Upon Silence Festival MITO SettembreMusica Milan and Turin, BARONESS SCHRAEDER The Sound of Music Central City Opera, and a contemporary music concert with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group at the Aldeburgh Festival. Lucy's first solo recording, CARPENTERSVILLE, co-produced with ABC Classics in Australia and recently released. Other recent engagements include JUDY Punch and Judy Grand Théâtre de Genève, SUZUKI Houston Grand Opera, SWISS GRANDMOTHER/AUSTRIAN WOMAN/DANCING GIRL The Death of Klinghoffer Opera Theatre of St. Louis, SOLOIST The Garden of Earthly Delights (world premiere) BBC Proms, MARCELLINA Le Nozze di Figaro and SWISS GRANDMOTHER The Death of Klinghoffer ENO, CAROLINA Elegy for Young Lovers ENO, Young Vic, ANNE Heggie’s To Hell and Back Oper Faber in Portugal and MARGARET JOHNSON The Light in the Piazza The Curve, Leicester. Additional noted engagements have included PAGE Salome, BLUMENMÄDCHEN Parsifal and SUZUKI Metropolitan Opera, CLARE DE LOONE On the Town ENO and Théâtre du Châtelet, JUDY Punch and Judy and AMASTRIS Xerxes ENO, SMERALDINE The Love for Three Oranges New Israeli Opera, CHERUBINO Le Nozze di Figaro and HÄNSEL Hänsel and Gretel Los Angeles Opera, OCTAVIAN Der Rosenkavalier and CORNELIA Giulio Cesare Staatsoper Hamburg, and ERIKA Vanessa Los Angeles Opera, Hamburg Staatsoper, Opéra du Rhin, Washington National Opera and Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Lucy was a member of the Oper Köln ensemble, where roles included CHARLOTTE Werther, OLGA Eugene Onegin and CHERUBINO. Concert performances include her collaboration with Transition Projects and Netia Jones for Recollections of My Childhood and other songs by Stravinsky Wilton's Music Hall and Kings Place in London, Elgar’s Sea Pictures and Music Makers Orquestra Simfonica de Barcelona, Songs of the Auvergne New York City Ballet, ORLOFSKY Die Fledermaus Domingo & Friends: LA Opera Gala, Bernstein’s Symphony No.2 Kaddish and Zeisl’s Requiem Ebraico Gulbenkian Orchestra and NARRATOR The Diary of Anne Frank Gűrzenich Orchester. 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.