Lucas van Lierop

The Danish-Canadian tenor Lucas van Lierop studied at Yale University and continued his training at the Opera Studio of the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, where he appeared as Male Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia), Paolino in Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto under Gianluca Capuano, Joe Cannon in John Adams’s Girls of the Golden West directed by Peter Sellars and Heinrich der Schreiber in Christof Loy’s production of Tannhäuser conducted by Marc Albrecht. Other engagements at the Dutch National Opera have included the Tailor in Humperdinck’s Königskinder (directed by Christof Loy), Pong in Turandot (directed by Barrie Kosky) and Innkeeper in Der Rosenkavalier (directed by Jan Philipp Gloger).

In the 2023/24 season he has made his debuts at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival as Young Servant (Elektra) under Kirill Petrenko and at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw as Olindo in Johannes Nicolaas Helstone’s Het pand der goden. He has also sung Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte) at the Dutch National Opera and Judge in Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane with the Nederlandse Reisopera.

He also recently appeared at the Concertgebouw as Robert R. Wilson in John Adams’s Doctor Atomic and as Prince in Hans Abrahamsen’s The Snow Queen under Kent Nagano.

Future engagements include Pong at Theater Basel and a return to the Dutch National Opera to sing Bob Boles (Peter Grimes).