Karina Lucas

Karina Lucas is from London and is of Spanish and English parentage. She studied at the National Opera Studio, where her studies were supported by the Peter Moores Foundation and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Previously, she trained at the Royal Northern College of Music where she graduated with a First Class Honours Degree and Distinction for her Post Graduate Diploma.

 

She has performed in three of Jonathan Dove Opera's: the role of Flora (The Enchanted Pig) at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House and at the New Victory Theatre, 42^nd Street, New York; the title role (The Adventures of Pinocchio) for Opera North and Sara (Tobias and the Angel) for the Young Vic/Opera Group of which a disc has recently been released on Chandos. Other roles include Third Lady (Die Zauberflöte) for Opera North; Witch (Macbeth) for Scottish Opera Go Round; Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte), Leila (Iolanthe), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Wowkle (La Fanciulla del West), Smeraldina (The Love of Three Oranges) and Nymph (Rusalka) for Grange Park Opera; Dorabella for the Ryedale Festival and  Sesto (Giulio Cesare) for the Yorke Trust. She returned to Grange Park Opera last summer to perform the Kitchen Boy in Dvořák's Rusalka.

 

As a Park Lane Group Young Artist Karina made her debut at the Purcell Room in January 2007 with duo partner Simon Lane, since when she has given recitals at the Brighton Festival, Leeds Lieder Festival, Ripon Cathedral, St. John's Smith Square, St. James's Piccadilly, Oundle International Festival and been invited to perform at the Wigmore Hall. Karina and Simon were amongst the small selection of artists chosen and recommended by Making Music in the Concert Promoters Network Brochure 2009-2010. They released their first disc, in collaboration with violist Rebecca Jones, on the Sonimage label in 2011.

 

Other concert performances include works by Nicola Le Fanu, Judith Weir and Anthony Powers with the contemporary music group Okeanos (Gloucester Three Choirs Festival, Bmic The Cutting edge, Guildhall and Cardiff University); Young Artist recitals (Aix-en-Provence Summer Festival); Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music (Wigmore Hall); Berkeley's Four Poems by St Teresa of Avila (Lake District Summer Music); Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer (Stockport Symphony Orchestra) and Elgar's Sea Pictures (Bath Philharmonia).

 

Karina has been invited to return to St. John's Smith Square in 2012, to give a recital in tribute to Kathleen Ferrier, to mark the centenary of her birth. Karina and pianist Sholto Kynoch will also present this special programme for the Oxford Lieder Spring series and in Abbotsholme.