Baritone Lucas Meachem makes his LA Opera debut as Figaro in The Barber of Seville (December 5, 12mat, 19mat).

In the 2009/10 season Lucas Meachem returns to the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Valentin in Faust, followed by performances of Figaro in The Barber of Seville with Los Angeles Opera and Colorado Opera. Later this season, he will make his debut with the Opéra National de Paris in the title role of Britten's Billy Budd, conducted by Jeffrey Tate, as well as Fritz/Frank in Korngold's Die tote Stadt with the Teatro Real de Madrid. Upcoming engagements include returns to the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Teatro Real de Madrid and a debut with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

In the 2008/09 season, he performed Fritz/Frank in Korngold's Die tote Stadt, conducted by Donald Runnicles at San Francisco Opera. Mr. Meachem also debuted with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas, scheduled for commercial DVD release next season. In addition he appeared as Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro with the Bayerische Staatsoper, Valentin in Faust with Minnesota Opera, and the title role in Don Giovanni for the first time with the Santa Fe Opera and New Orleans Opera. In concert, he appeared as the baritone soloist in Carmina Burana with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, an opera gala at Toronto's Roy Thompson Hall, and concert performances of Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe with the San Francisco Symphony.

In the 2007/08 season, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut in the role of General Rayevsky in Prokofiev's War and Peace. Additionally, for the Florida Grand Opera, he performed the role of Zurga in Les Pêcheurs de Perles, as well as Valentin in Faust for New Orleans Opera. In concert, he appeared with the Florence Maggio Musicale in the Fauré Requiem under Seiji Ozawa, with the American Symphony Orchestra, in the U.S. premiere of Ferdinand Hiller's oratorio The Destruction of Jerusalem at Avery Fisher Hall, made his New York Philharmonic debut in Bach's St. Matthew Passion under Kurt Masur, Carmina Burana with St. Louis Symphony and the Fauré Requiem with Pittsburgh Symphony.

Other notable engagements include a debut with the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Oreste in the new Robert Carson production of Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride opposite Susan Graham, Paul Groves and conducted by Louis Langrée, Wolfram in Tannhäuser with Seiji Ozawa's Saito Kinen Festival in Tokyo, and his debut at Madrid's Teatro de Real in the world premiere of El Viaje a Simorgh by José María Sánchez-Verdú. Additionally, he sang Figaro in The Barber of Seville in Portland, Maine, and Carmina Burana with the Seattle Symphony.

Mr. Meachem was an Adler Fellow with the San Francisco Opera and has appeared with the company in the title role of Eugene Onegin and Papageno in The Magic Flute.

He has been a winner in many competitions across the United States including: the Mario Lanza Competition, Jessie Kneisel Competition, West Palm Beach Opera Competition, Opera Index Competition, George London Competition and the Bel Canto Competition. He has also been a winner in the Metropolitan National Council Competition in Charlotte, NC and in New Haven, CT and was the recipient of an Encouragement award at the Regional Metropolitan National Council Competition in Atlanta, GA.