Karina Lucas Mezzo Soprano
Karina Lucas is from London and is of Spanish and English parentage. In 1997 she joined the Royal Northern College of Music where her studies were supported by an Allcard Award, a Musicians Benevolant Fund Award and an Annie Ridyard Award. Karina graduated from the RNCM with a First Class Honours Degree and Distinction for her Post Graduate Diploma. Karina studies with Barbara Robotham and is currently a student of the National Opera studio.

Karina’s operatic experience includes the roles of Dorabella in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte for both Grange Park Opera and the Ryedale festival; Baba the Turk in The Rake’s Progress (RNCM); Leila in Iolanthe (Grange Park Opera); Orlofsky in Die Fleidermaus (Clonter Opera education projects); Pauline in The Queen of Spades (RNCM); Annina in La Traviata (Pimlico Opera); Sextus in Julius Caesar (Yorke Trust); Meg Page in Verdi’s Falstaff (RNCM); Olga in Eugene Onegin (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 for Ulverston Choral Society, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle and Mozart’s Requiem for Wetherby Choral Society, Bach St John’s Passion for Sheffield Bach Choir, 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 for both Blackburn and Salford Choral Society, Mozart’s Requiem for Viva (conducted by Nicholas Kok), Elgar’s Sea Pictures with the Bath Philharmonia, Elgar’s The Music Makers with Rossini’s Stabat Mater for Lytham St Annes Choral Society and Duruflé’s Requiem for Festival La Tour in Perpignon, France.

Karina is generously supported by the Peter Moores Foundation and her NOS studies are supported by Glyndebourne.