biography
A frequent "audience favorite (onStage Pittsburgh)", lauded for her versatility and commitment to performance building, soprano Wallis Lucas has quickly proven herself to be a young artist to watch.
During the 2025-2026 season, Wallis looks forward to exploring her capabilities as both a singer and an actor. Upcoming projects include the musical The Last Five Years, contemporary music recitals, and world premieres of Laura Kaminsky and Crystal Manich's Time to Act with Pittsburgh Opera and the new play Agnus Teaches Acting with the New Hazlett Theatre. She will also continue her work with Pittsburgh Festival Opera on their school tour of The Magic Flute. Most recently, she received an Encouragement Award at the Minnesota District of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition.
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Last season, she joined Opera Project Columbus for their productions of Naughty Marietta and H.M.S. Pinafore, then traveled to Banff Centre for the Arts to workshop new operas by Karim al-Zand, as well as present an excerpted, multi-lingual St. Matthew Passion. Wallis recently completed an Advanced Studies certificate at Carnegie Mellon University, where she worked with voice, orchestra, and composition faculty to workshop and premiere new chamber and orchestral pieces. In the 2024-2025 season, Wallis reprised her role as Morgana in Alcina, as well as made her mainstage and touring debuts with Pittsburgh Festival Opera (Adriana Lecouvreur, Hansel and Gretel).
During the summer of 2024, Wallis was thrilled to make a role debut with Resonance Works as Albina in La donna del lago. The season began with Carnegie Mellon University’s production of The Telephone (Lucy), and she covered Caio Silio in Vivaldi’s Ottone in Villa. She also joined Chamber Music Collective with Cornell University's Center for Historical Keyboards for their early music festival.
2021 and 2022 saw Wallis's first operatic performances, including the roles of Barbarina, Zerlina, and her first Morgana, which kickstarted her passion for early and Baroque opera. In 2020, she went to western Massachusetts to work and train with Double Edge Theatre in their summer Spectacle, studying movement theatre, devised work, and aerial arts, learning practices which shape her creative process in every genre today.
Wallis holds a Bachelor of Music from Furman University, where she was the first to receive a Musical Theatre minor, and a Master's from Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied under Jennifer Aylmer. A Georgia native, Wallis was a state champion 2-baton twirler three years in a row.
