Lucas Meachem

San Diego Opera debut. American baritone Lucas Meachem’s recent performances include Valentin in Faust and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Figaro for Los Angeles Opera and Colorado Opera, the title role of Billy Budd with Opéra National de Paris, Fritz/Frank in Die tote Stadt and Oreste in Iphigenie en Tauride with the Teatro Real in Madrid, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet at The Metropolitan Opera, Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro at San Francisco Opera and Bayerische Staatsoper, the title role of Don Giovanni for Santa Fe Opera and New Orleans Opera, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas for Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Valentin for Minnesota Opera, General Raevsky in War and Peace at The Metropolitan Opera, Zurga in The Pearl Fishers for Florida Grand Opera and Wolfram in Tannhäuser with the Saito Kinen Festival in Tokyo, among others. He has been the winner of many competitions across the United States including the Mario Lanza Competition, the Jessie Kneisel Competition, and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Competition in Charlotte, North Carolina and in New Haven, Connecticut.