Artist Profiles

Lucille Beer, Mezzo-Soprano

Lucille Beer, Mezzo-Soprano

Lucille Beer has received acclaim for her performances in opera houses and on concert stages around the world, in both the mezzo-soprano and contralto repertoires. She is widely praised, both for her superb musicianship and distinctive timbre critics describe as rare and memorable.

A native of New York City, Ms. Beer was a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, followed by her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges. Since then she has performed in numerous Met productions, most recently in Strauss's Electra with James Levine. She has appeared with the New York City Opera in Flotow's Martha, Massenet's Cendrillon, and Puccini's Madama Butterfly and with the Opera Theatre of St. Louis in Handel's Alcina. International opera appearances include engagements with L'Opera de Nice in Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte and Mitridate Re di Ponto with a return engagement in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Opera de Nantes in Wagner's Siegfried and concert performances of Die Walkure with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and Tristan und Isolde with the Prague Radio Symphony

In addition to opera, Ms. Beer frequently performs in oratorio as well as a vast array of symphonic repertoire. The 2007-2008 season brings appearances in Bernstein's Symphony No. 1, "Jeremiah" and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Albany Symphony, Mahler's Das klagende Lied with the Colorado MahlerFest and Mahler's Symphony No.2, "Resurrection" with the Walla Walla Symphony. The 2006-2007 season included appearances in De Falla's El Amor Brujo with the Evansville Philharmonic and the Louisiana Philharmonic, Verdi's Requiem with the Columbia ProCantare and Handel's Messiah with the Albany Pro Musica. The 2005-2006 season brought appearances at Carnegie Hall in Handel?s Messiah, with the Baltimore Symphony in "The Lure of the Diva", an evening of opera arias and duets, and Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with the Las Cruces Symphony. The 2004-2005 season included Bach's B Minor Mass with the Albany Pro Musica, Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with the Canton Symphony, Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky and De Falla's El Amor Brujo with the Albany Symphony, Verdi's Requiem with the Evansville Philharmonic, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with the Breckenridge, CO Music Festival and Vivaldi's Gloria with the Spokane Symphony. She has sung with many of the leading symphony orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the St. Louis Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the National Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Ravinia Festival and Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival.