Karina Lucas - Mezzo

Karina Lucas is from London and is of Spanish and English parentage. She is currently a student at the National Opera Studio and before that at the Royal Northern College of Music where she graduated with a First Class Degree. Karina's operatic experience includes the roles of Dorabella for both Grange Park Opera and the Ryedale festival; Baba the Turk (RNCM); Leila in Iolanthe (Grange Park Opera); Orlofsky (Clonter Opera education projects); Pauline (RNCM); Annina (Pimlico Opera); Sextus in Julius Caesar (Yorke Trust); Meg Page (RNCM); Olga (Opera 74) and Cinderella's Mother/Granny/Giant in Sondheim's Into the Woods (RNCM). She was also a member of Glyndebourne Festival Chorus in 2002. Karina also appears regularly on the concert platform. Performances include Mendelssohn's Elijah, Rossini's Petite Messe Solenelle, Bach St. John's Passion, Berkeley's Four Poems by St. Teresa of Avila for Lake District Summer Music, Rachmaninov's Vespers and Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb with Huddersfield Choral Society (conducted by Martyn Brabbins), Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Requiem for Viva (conducted by Nicholas Kok), Elgar's Sea Pictures with the Bath Philharmonia, Elgar's The Music Makers, Rossini's Stabat Mater and Duruflé's Requiem for Festival La Tour in Perpignon, France.

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