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.
In 2026, Wallis looks forward to exploring her capabilities as both a singer and an actor. This season's 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, Jodi Goble's newest opera Sirens vs. Amazons with Thousand Bridges Opera, and the 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.
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 also reprised the role of Morgana in Alcina and made her mainstage and touring debuts with Pittsburgh Festival Opera (Adriana Lecouvreur, Hansel and Gretel).
Wallis’s work is marked by her passion for both singing historically-informed baroque music and developing new music and theatre. An avid performer of Händel, Vivaldi, and Bach, she is an alumna of the early music festival held by Chamber Music Collective and Cornell University's Center for Historical Keyboards.
She 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 2020, she traveled 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 has appeared with companies including Pittsburgh Opera, Resonance Works, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, Opera Project Columbus, the Banff Centre for Performing Arts, Opera de Metro, Thousand Bridges Opera, and Stafford Opera Troupe. Recent roles include Albina (La donna del lago), Lucy (The Telephone), Caio Silio (Ottone in villa), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Atalanta (Serse), Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro).
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. A Georgia native, Wallis was a state champion 2-baton twirler three years in a row.
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