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Karina Lucas was born in London and is of Spanish and English parentage. In 1997 she moved to Manchester where she attended the Royal Northern College of Music studying with Barbara Robotham. She graduated with a First Class Honours Degree and a Distinction for her Post Graduate Diploma. As an Under Graduate Karina was awarded the RNCM'S Amanda Roocroft Prize and the Elsie Thurston Song Prize and a Post Graduate she was awarded an Allcard Award, a Musicians Benevolent Fund Award and an Annie Rydyard Award. After living in Manchester for 7 years she has now returned to London where she is currently a student of the National Opera studio, sponsored by Glyndebourne Opera and the Peter Moores Foundation.
Karina enjoys singing in Oratorio and on the concert platform. Performances include Mendelssohn's Elijah for Ulverston Choral Society, Rossini's Petite Messe Solenelle and Mozart's Requiem for Wetherby Choral Society, Bach St John's Passion for Sheffield Bach Choir, Berkeley's Four Poems by St Teresa of Avila for Lake District Summer Music, Rachmaninov's Vespers and Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb with Huddersfield Choral Society (conducted by Martyn Brabbins), Handel's Messiah for both Blackburn and Salford Choral Society, Mozart's Requiem for Viva (conducted by Nicholas Kok), Elgar's Sea Pictures with the Bath Philharmonia, Elgar's The Music Makers with Rossini's Stabat Mater for Lytham St Annes Choral Society and Vivaldi's Gloria with Charpontier's Christmas Mass for Brockenhurst Choral Society. In July 2000 Karina went to Perpignon in France to sing Durufle's Requiem, Elgar's The Music Maker's and an Opera Gala for the Festival La Tour.
Karina's operatic experience includes the roles of Dorabella in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte for both Grange Park Opera, Pimlico Opera and the Ryedale festival; Baba the Turk in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (RNCM); Leila in lolanthe (Grange Park Opera); Orlofsky in Strauss' Die Fledermaus (Clonter Opera education projects); Pauline in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades (RNCM); Annina in Verdi's La Traviata (Pimlico Opera); Sextus in Handel's Julius Caesar (Yorke Trust); Meg Page in Verdi's Falstaff (RNCM); Olga in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin (Opera 74) and Cinderella's Mother/Granny/Giant in Sondheim's Into the Woods (RNCM). She was also a member of Glyndebourne Festival Chorus in 2002.
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