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date = "2017-02-10T13:07:00+00:00"
discipline = "Mezzo-soprano"
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publishDate = "2017-02-10T13:07:00+00:00"
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slug = "lucy-schaufer"
title = "Lucy Schaufer"
website = "https://lucyschaufer.com/"
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Lucy Schaufer's current and future engagements include the leading role of DOCTOR Venables’ *4.48 Psychosis* (world premiere) Royal Opera House, Covent Garden at the Lyric Hammersmith, MADDY Heggie’s *Three Decembers* Florentine Opera, MARCELLINA *Le nozze di Figaro* Opera Company Philadelphia, RUTH *The Pirates of Penzance* English National Opera, Eötvös’ *The Golden Dragon* Music Theatre Wales (UK tour) and a concert with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, including two works by Judith Weir. She will also make her Teatro Real Madrid debut in a future season.

Most recent engagements include a Bernstein concert BBC Proms with the John Wilson Orchestra, SUSANNA *The Ghosts of Versailles*, MARCELLINA, BERTA *Il barbiere di Siviglia* Los Angeles Opera, ELF Adamo’s *Becoming Santa Claus* Dallas Opera, MARCELLINA *English National Opera*, ALDONZA *Man of La Mancha* Central City Opera, JENNY Knussen’s *Higglety Pigglety Pop* Aldeburgh Festival and the Barbican, OLDER WOMAN Dove’s *Flight* Opera Holland Park, SUZUKI *Madama Butterfly* New Zealand Opera, DER TROMMLER *Der Kaiser von Atlantis* and MA MOSS *The Tender Land* Opéra de Lyon, SOLOIST Ruth Crawford Seeger’s *Three Songs* Birmingham Contemporary Music Group as part of Oliver Knussen’s residency at the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) and SOLOIST George Benjamin’s *Upon Silence* Settembre Musica Festival, Milan and Turin.

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 and ENO, SOLOIST *The Garden of Earthly Delights* (world premiere) BBC Proms, MARCELLINA *The Marriage of Figaro* and CAROLINA *Elegy for Young Lovers* ENO at the 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 AMESTRIS *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.

Concert performances include collaborations with Orquestra Simfonica de Barcelona, New York City Ballet, LA Opera (Gala: Domingo & Friends), Gulbenkian Orchestra and 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.

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. 
