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.

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 and 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).

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, and Clare de Loone in ENO’s Olivier-nominated production of Bernstein’s On the Town.

Media Emilia in Weill's The Firebrand of Florence (BBCSO/Sir Andrew Davies), Ira Gershwin at 100: Celebration at Carnegie Hall (PBS TV/Rob Fisher), Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier (ARTE/Simone Young), The Girl in Paul Bowles's The Wind Remains (Eos Ensemble/Jonathan Sheffer) and the Page in Salome (The Met’s Live in HD/Patrick Summers).

In Concert Zeisl's Requiem Ebraico and Bernstein's Kaddish Symphony (Gulbenkian Orchestra), Elgar's Sea Pictures and Musicmakers (Barcelona), songs of Igor Stravinsky with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne with the New York City Ballet, and Orlofsky in Placido Domingo & Friends: LA Opera's 20th Anniversary Gala, when the LA Times singled her out as “the evening's most alluring singer.”

Notable conductors with whom she has worked include Antonello Allemandi, Steuart Bedford, Stefan Blunier, Placido Domingo, Lawrence Foster, Edward Gardner, Valery Gergiev, Alan Gilbert, Graeme Jenkins, Emmanuel Joel, 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, Ian Judge, Jude Kelly, Paul Kerryson, Daniel Kramer, Gunter Krämer, Marco Arturo Marelli, and David McVicar.

Winner of the Vocal Prize at the Aspen Music Festival, she has performed at Tanglewood, Pacific Music Festival and with The New York Festival of Song. A proponent of American music, she sang Ava in the world premiere of Stewart Wallace's Hopper's Wife, the German premiere of Michael Tilson Thomas's The Diary of Anne Frank with the Gürzenich Orchestra and recently sang Anne in the European premiere of Jake Heggie’s To Hell and Back for Opera Faber at Festeixo, Viana do Castelo, Portugal.

Other recent work Carolina in Fiona Shaw’s new production of Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers for ENO/Young Vic, Alfred and Osric in American Opera Project's workshop and performances of Herschel Garfein's new opera Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead directed by Mark Morris and conducted by Steven Osgood.  For Transition_Projects and Netia Jones, she performed Recollections of My Childhood and other songs by Stravinsky at Wilton's Music Hall and Kings Place, London, with Christopher Glynn, pianist.  

Upcoming projects include three house debuts for the 2010-11 season: 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 and Suzuki in Madama Butterfly for Houston Grand Opera in a new production directed by Michael Grandage.

Lucy is currently working on The Yellow Wallpaper, a new one-woman chamber opera written for her by American composer Dan Welcher.

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