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Lucy Schaufer has earned critical and popular acclaim as a versatile and distinctive singing actress with companies as diverse as the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet and London’s Young Vic. Season 2011-12 includes a role debut as Marcellina in Fiona Shaw’s new production of The Marriage of Figaro for ENO, a reprisal of the Swiss Grandmother in John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer in Tom Morris’ new production for ENO and the title role of Jennie in Oliver Knussen’s Higglety Pigglety Pop for The Aldeburgh Festival and The Barbican, London with the Britten Sinfonia, conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth. Last season included three house debuts: the three female roles in The Death of Klinghoffer for Opera Theatre of St. Louis in the first US-staged production since the original 1991 production, Judy in the revival of Daniel Kramer’s South Bank Show Award-winning production of Birtwistle’s Punch and Judy for Grand Théâtre de Genève, Anne in the European premiere of Jake Heggie’s To Hell and Back for Opera Faber at Festeixo, Portugal and Suzuki in Madama Butterfly for Houston Grand Opera in a new production directed by Michael Grandage. Other recent work: Carolina in Fiona Shaw’s Olivier-nominated production of Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers for ENO/Young Vic, Marie Curie in Stephen McNeff’s Daughters of the Elements and Polycaste in Michael Zev Gordon's Icarus for The Tête-à-Tête Festival, Alfred and Osric in American Opera Project's workshop of Herschel Garfein's new opera Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead directed by Mark Morris. For Transition_Projects and Netia Jones, she performed Recollections of My Childhood, works by Stravinsky at Wilton's Music Hall and Kings Place, London, with Christopher Glynn, pianist. Musical Theatre credits: Margaret Johnson in the European premiere of Adam Guettel's The Light in the Piazza for The Curve – Leicester, City Center's initial seasons of Encores! appearing in performances of Lady in the Dark and One Touch of Venus, Miss Hyde in Very Warm for May conducted by John McGlinn at Weill Recital Hall, Emilia in The Firebrand of Florence for The Barbican's "Weill: From Berlin to Broadway" and Clare de Loone in ENO’s Olivier-nominated production of Bernstein’s On the Town. Opera credits include Metropolitan Opera (Page/Salome, Flowermaiden/Parsifal, and Suzuki/Madama Butterfly), Los Angeles Opera (Cherubino/Le Nozze di Figaro, Hansel/Hansel and Gretel, and Erika/Vanessa), Washington National Opera, Opera du Rhin Strasbourg (Erika), Opera de Monte Carlo (Erika and Sesto/Giulio Cesare), Hamburg State Opera (Octavian/Der Rosenkavalier and Cornelia/Giulio Cesare), Opera der Stadt Köln (Charlotte/Werther, Olga/Eugene Onegin and Cherubino), New Israeli Opera (Smeraldine/The Love for Three Oranges), English National Opera (Judy/Punch and Judy and Amastris/Xerxes), Opera North (Zerlina/Don Giovanni and Johanna/Sweeney Todd), Garsington Opera Festival (Europa/Die Liebe der Danae) and Music Theatre Wales/ROH2 (Thea/The Knot Garden). Notable conductors with whom she has worked include Steuart Bedford, Stefan Blunier, Michael Christie, Placido Domingo, Lawrence Foster, Edward Gardner, Valery Gergiev, Alan Gilbert, Graeme Jenkins, Jim Holmes, Kent Nagano, Sakari Oramo, Julius Rudel, Peter Schneider, Patrick Summers, and Simone Young. Notable directors include Christopher Alden, John Cox, Paul Curran, Martin Duncan, David Fielding, Douglas Fitch, Jürgen Flimm, Stanley Garner, Michael Grandage, Ian Judge, Jude Kelly, Paul Kerryson, Daniel Kramer, Gunter Krämer, Marco Arturo Marelli, David McVicar, James Robinson and Fiona Shaw. |