Baritone Lucas Meachem has established himself as an internationally sought-after performer whose compelling lyric baritone voice and dramatic interpretations have led him to some of the world’s most important operatic stages. In the 2011-12 season Meachem returned to the San Francisco Opera to perform the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Meachem then traveled to London to sing Count Almaviva in the Royal Opera House’s production of Le nozze di Figaro before returning to perform the title role in Il barbiere di Siviglia at San Diego Opera. Future engagements include Wolfram in Tannhäuser for Opera de Toulouse and a return to Lyric Opera of Chicago as Marcello in La bohéme, as well as performances with the St. Louis Symphony and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
In the 2010-11 season Lucas Meachem performed as Count Almaviva in
Le nozze di Figaro at the San Francisco Opera. In November, he returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago to perform in
A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Demetrius. Mr. Meachem began the new year performing in Madrid, Spain, as Orestes in
Iphigenie en Tauride. At the Metropolitan Opera in New York he played Mercutio in
Roméo et Juliette. During the summer Glyndebourne Opera Festival in England, he returned to his role as
Don Giovanni ... read full bioBaritone Lucas Meachem has established himself as an internationally sought-after performer whose compelling lyric baritone voice and dramatic interpretations have led him to some of the world’s most important operatic stages. In the 2011-12 season Meachem returned to the San Francisco Opera to perform the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Meachem then traveled to London to sing Count Almaviva in the Royal Opera House’s production of Le nozze di Figaro before returning to perform the title role in Il barbiere di Siviglia at San Diego Opera. Future engagements include Wolfram in Tannhäuser for Opera de Toulouse and a return to Lyric Opera of Chicago as Marcello in La bohéme, as well as performances with the St. Louis Symphony and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
In the 2010-11 season Lucas Meachem performed as Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro at the San Francisco Opera. In November, he returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago to perform in A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Demetrius. Mr. Meachem began the new year performing in Madrid, Spain, as Orestes in Iphigenie en Tauride. At the Metropolitan Opera in New York he played Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette. During the summer Glyndebourne Opera Festival in England, he returned to his role as Don Giovanni.
In the 2009-10 season Lucas Meachem returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Valentin in Faust, followed by performances of Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Los Angeles Opera and Colorado Opera. Later in the season, Mr. Meachem made his debut with the Opéra National de Paris in the title role of Britten’s Billy Budd, conducted by Jeffrey Tate, as well as Fritz/Frank in Korngold’s Die tote Stadt with the Teatro Real de Madrid.
In the 2008-09 season, Lucas Meachem performed Fritz/Frank in Korngold’s Die tote Stadt, conducted by Donald Runnicles at San Francisco Opera. Mr. Meachem also debuted with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Aeneas in Dido & Aeneas, scheduled for commercial DVD release next season. In addition he appeared as Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with the Bayerische Staatsoper, Valentin in Faust with Minnesota Opera, and the title role in Don Giovanni for the first time with the Santa Fe Opera and New Orleans Opera. In concert, Mr. Meachem appeared as the baritone soloist in Carmina Burana with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, an opera gala at Toronto’s Roy Thompson Hall, and concert performances of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe with the San Francisco Symphony.
In the 2007-2008 season, Lucas Meachem made his Metropolitan Opera debut in the role of General Rayevsky in Prokofiev’s War & Peace. Additionally, for the Florida Grand Opera, he performed the role of Zurga in Les Pêcheurs de Perles, as well as Valentin in Faust for New Orleans Opera. In concert, he appeared with the Florence Maggio Musicale in the Fauré Requiem under Seiji Ozawa, with the American Symphony Orchestra, in the U.S. premiere of Ferdinand Hiller’s oratorio The Destruction of Jerusalem at Avery Fisher Hall, made his New York Philharmonic debut in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion under Kurt Masur, Carmina Burana with St. Louis Symphony and the Fauré Requiem with Pittsburgh Symphony.
Other notable engagements include a debut with the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Oreste in the new Robert Carson production of Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride opposite Susan Graham, Paul Groves and conducted by Louis Langrée, Wolfram in Tannhäuser with Seiji Ozawa’s Saito Kinen Festival in Tokyo, and made his debut at Madrid’s Teatro de Real in the world premier of El Viaje a Simorgh by José María Sánchez-Verdú.
Additionally, he sang Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia in Portland, Maine, and Carmina Burana with the Seattle Symphony. Mr. Meachem was an Adler Fellow with the San Francisco Opera and has appeared with the company in the title role of Eugene Onegin and Papageno Die Zauberflöte.
Mr. Meachem has been a winner in many competitions across the United States including: the Mario Lanza Competition, Jessie Kneisel Competition, West Palm Beach Opera Competition, Opera Index Competition, George London Competition and the Bel Canto Competition. He has also been a winner in the Metropolitan National Council Competition in Charlotte, NC and in New Haven, CT and was the recipient of an Encouragement award at the Regional Metropolitan National Council Competition in Atlanta, GA.
