Lucas Meachem

Lucas Meachem was born and raised in Carthage, North Carolina and grew up singing karaoke before discovering opera.^[4] Meachem trained at the Adler Program artist residency at the San Francisco Opera from 2004 to 2005.^[5] He had his big break soon after that in 2006, when he was discovered at a karaoke bar in Paris by acclaimed mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, who suggested he step in for Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride at the Lyric Opera of Chicago from which the international star baritone Simon Keenlyside had withdrawn.^[5]

Meachem made his Metropolitan Opera debut as General Rayevsky in War and Peace in 2008,^[6] and has since performed at the Met as Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette, Silvio in Pagliacci, Marcello in La bohème.^[7] He most recently sang the role of Sharpless in Madama Butterfly.

In 2016, Meachem won a Grammy for Los Angeles Opera's Ghosts of Versailles as Figaro.^[8] Also in 2016, Meachem was voted as the inaugural Emerging Star by San Francisco Opera.^[9][10]

In 2021, Meachem performed the role of Figaro in an abridged English-language adaptation of The Barber of Seville for the San Francisco Opera. The production was held as an open-air, drive-in event at the Marin Center due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[11][12]

Meachem is married to pianist/opera coach, Irina Meachem.^[13] They have a son, and live in Minneapolis.^[12]

• Ghosts of Versailles
• Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording
• 59th Annual Grammy Awards
• Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice
• Metropolitan Opera
• La bohème