Lucy Schaufer’s current and future engagements include Margaret in Wozzeck (Opéra de Monte-Carlo), Laura Bowler’s The Blue Woman (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), a revival of Venables’ 4.48 Psychosis (nominated for a 2017 Olivier Award; Ensemble intercontemporain) in Paris, Polycast in Michael Zev Gordon’s Raising Icarus (Birmingham), Maddy in Heggie’s Three Decembers (Opera della Luna at Wilton’s Music Hall) and Little Buttercup in H.M.S. Pinafore (Opera Holland Park).
Most recent operatic engagements include Mrs. Jones in Street Scene (Opéra de Monte-Carlo and Teatro Real Madrid), Doctor in Venables’ 4.48 Psychosis (Royal Opera House, PROTOTYPE Festival NYC and Opéra national du Rhin), Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Des Moines Metro Opera), Higgins’s Monstrous Child (Royal Opera House, Linbury), Susanna in The Ghosts of Versailles (2017 Grammy® winner) and Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Los Angeles Opera), Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance (English National Opera), Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro (Los Angeles Opera, ENO, Opera Company Philadelphia and Arizona Opera), Aldonza in Man of La Mancha (Central City Opera), IB in Adamo’s Becoming Santa Claus (Dallas Opera), Maddy in Heggie’s Three Decembers (Florentine Opera), Jenny in Knussen’s Higglety Pigglety Pop (Aldeburgh Festival and Barbican), Older Woman in Flight (Opera Holland Park), Suzuki (New Zealand Opera), Der Trommler in Der Kaiser von Atlantis and Ma Moss in The Tender Land (Opéra de Lyon).
Additional noted engagements include Page in Salome, Blumenmädchen in Parsifal and Suzuki in Madama Butterfly (Met Opera), Clare de Loone in On the Town (ENO and Théâtre du Châtelet), Judy in Punch and Judy (ENO and Grand Théâtre de Genève), Cherubino and Hänsel (Los Angeles Opera), Octavian and Cornelia (Staatsoper Hamburg), Suzuki (Houston Grand Opera), Swiss Grandmother/Austrian Woman/Dancing Girl in The Death of Klinghoffer (Opera Theatre of St. Louis and ENO), Carolina in Elegy for Young Lovers (ENO at Young Vic), Margaret Johnson in The Light in the Piazza (The Curve, Leicester) and Erika in Vanessa (Los Angeles Opera, Hamburg Staatsoper, Opéra du Rhin, Washington National Opera and Opéra de Monte-Carlo).
Concert and recital performances include: Bernstein concert (BBC Proms) with John Wilson Orchestra, The Sail of a Flame with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, solo recital debuts (Wigmore Hall, Ravinia Festival and Buxton Festival), Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Three Songs with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group as part of Oliver Knussen’s residency at the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.), Soloist in George Benjamin’s Upon Silence (Settembre Musica Festival, Milan and Turin, Orquestra Simfonica de Barcelona, New York City Ballet, LA Opera [Gala: Domingo & Friends], Gulbenkian Orchestra and Gűrzenich Orchester). Recordings include Bray’s Fire Burning in Snow (BCMG on NMC), 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. Lucy’s first solo recording, Carpentersville, co-produced with ABC Classics, was released in the spring of 2013, and it was the Editor’s Choice in Classical Music Magazine in July 2013. She is the founder and Artistic Director of Wild Plum Arts (wildplumarts.org.uk).