Lucas Meachem

Between Appalachian State University, the Eastman School of Music, Yale and the Adler Fellowship at San Francisco Opera, Lucas Meachem assembled the training for a career in the central baritone repertory: Don Giovanni, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Billy Budd, Eugene Onegin, Count Almaviva, Wolfram, Marcello and Sharpless, sung at the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House, the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, the Semperoper Dresden, the Teatro Real and Glyndebourne. He took the title role in Rossini's Guillaume Tell for Wichita Grand Opera in February 2014. His recording of John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles won a Grammy, and in 2020 he founded the Perfect Day Music Foundation to support singers at the start of their careers. Athanael in Massenet's Thais belongs to his repertory as well, and he created the part of Jean-Dominique Bauby in Joby Talbot's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly at Dallas Opera. With the pianist Irina Meachem he recorded the album of American song Shall We Gather, and he teaches the preparation of operatic roles.