In the 2022/23 season she made her Rome debut as 1. Magd in Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under the baton of Antonio Pappano and her American debut as Haushälterin in Die schweigsame Frau at the Bard SummerScape Festival. She returned to Badisches Staatstheater as Page in Salome and 1. Maid in Elektra.
In the 2021/22 Season she made her debut at the Staatsoper Berlin as 1. Magd under the baton of Thomas Guggeis. The 2021/22 season also saw her house debut at Salzburger Landestheater as the Gute Fee in Alma Deutscher’s Cinderella.
Ms. Lucas was in the ensemble of Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe from 2017-2022. She made her German debut there in the 2015/16 season as Erda in David Hermann's new production of Das Rheingold, and has also been heard as Schwertleite (Die Walküre), 3. Dame (Die Zauberflöte), 1. Magd (Elektra), Geneviève (Pelléas et Mélisande), Gertrude (Roméo et Juliette),
Mademoiselle Dangeville (Adriana Lecouvreur), Marthe (Faust), Ute (Lustigen Nibelungen), Stimme der Mutter (Hoffmanns Erzählungen), Page (Salome), Zita (Gianni Schicchi), and Amastre in the widely celebrated production of Serse at the International Händel Festpiele.
In the 2020/21 season, Ms. Lucas was scheduled to sing Klytämnestra in Elektra at the Israeli Opera and Margret in a new production: of Wozzeck at Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (both cancelled due to COVID-19). In May 2020, she sang Erda in a digital version of Siegfried for Wuppertaler Bühnen’s digital season, and later that summer sang Ortrud in scenes from Lohengrin at the Richard-Wagner-Festspiele im Vinke Garten.
Previous guest engagements include Fricka (Die Walküre) with Tianjin Symphony Orchestra; Floßhilde (Surrogate Cities/Götterdämmerung) and Brigitta (Die tote Stadt) at Wuppertaler Bühnen; Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater with the Heidelberger Philharmonisches Orchester; Erda (Das Rheingold) at Theater Bielefeld; and Gertrude (Roméo et Juliette) at Luzerner Theater and Theater Aachen.
Ms. Lucas was the 2019 recipient of the Ebe Stignani Prize for best dramatic voice in the Stignani Competition. She was a 2019 Stipendiatin from Richard-Wagner-Verband Ammersee, and was awarded the Peter-Selbach-Förderpreis in the 2018 Internationaler Gesangswettbewerb für Wagner Stimmen. She holds a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
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Ariana Lucas
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In the 2024/25 season, dramatic contralto Ariana Lucas joins the Ensemble of Staatstheater Wiesbaden where she will make her role and house debut as Mescalina in a new production of Le Grand Macabre this fall. Additionally she will sing Mary in a new production of Der fliegende Holländer, 1. Dame in Die Zauberflöte, and will sing in the world premiere of “Die Erde still geküsst" with the Junges Staatstheater of Wiesbaden. She will make her house debut and role debüt as Klytämnestra in Elektra at Konzert und Theater St. Gallen in spring 2025.
In the 2023/24 season she made her house debut at Theater Heidelberg as Filipewna in the highly celebrated production of Eugene Onegin as well as a premier of “but I like to Sing” directed and developed by Intendant Holger Schultze. She returned to the Händel Festival in Karlsruhe, singing the role of Pleasure in Detlef Heusinger’s “The Foundlinghouse” and made her house and role debut at Bühnen Halle as Mrs. Herring in Albert Herring.
Manuel Brug, Die Welt, 16. Februar 2019
"Amastre (die wuschig tief orgelnde Ariana Lucas) verwandelt sich die meiste Zeit über von der rubensprallen Putzperle in die ruppige Dyke mit dem todwunden, weil liebestollen Herzen."
http://klassiker.welt.de/2019/02/16/hier-schimmert-die-serse-show-franco-fagioli-und-max-emanuel-cencic-eroeffnen-die-karlsruher-haendel-festspiele-mit-einer-glitzernd-intelligenten-liberace-hommage/#more-7509
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Joachim Lange, Concerti, 16. Februar 2019
Ariana Lucas (Amastre) setzt nicht nur die dunkle Wärme ihrer Stimme ein, um an Serse ranzukommen. Wenn es drauf ankommt nutzt sich auch ihren ganzen stattlichen Körper als Waffe, die einen umhaut
https://www.concerti.de/oper/opern-kritiken/badisches-staatstheater-karlsruhe-serse-15-2-19/
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Manfred Kraft, BNN, 1.10. 2018
Ariana Lucas -aus dem Ensemble des Staatstheaters -steigerte sich gegenüber dem Halbfinale deutlich und bot eine hervorragende Erde-Szene aus dem "Siegfried" sowie wiederum die Erzählung der Waltraute "Höre mit Sinn"
http://www.rwv-karlsruhe.de/download/gw2018_bnn.pdf
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Nike Luber, Badisches Tagblatt, 11.7.16
"Zuvor legt Ariana Lucas ihren düster warnenden Auftritt als Erda hin und beweist, dass man nicht Sopran singen muss, um in der Oper zu glänzen."
staatstheater.karlsruhe.de/programm/presse/2145/
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Gerhard Hoffmann - Der neue Merker 10.7.16
"In pastoser Altgrundierung und samtiger Mittellage erklang Erdas (Ariana Lucas) Warnung"
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J.-M. Wienecke - Opernglas 9.7.16
"Mit vortrefflichen Leistungen wartete die in allen Lagen und weitgehend bruchlos in den Registern präsente Erda von Ariana Lucas auf..."
http://archiv.opernglas.de/index.php?sid=b7bf7e95b0459511f3548431b1cd213e&cl=details&anid=be757bd766ce06453.69027467&listtype=search&searchparam=ariana%2Blucas