Dutch-Canadian tenor Lucas van Lierop is establishing himself as a versatile presence on opera and concert stages across Europe and North America.
Recent highlights include Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with the Royal Swedish Orchestra at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, alongside horn player Stefan Dohr under Alan Gilbert; his U.S. debut with Des Moines Metro Opera as Edrisi in King Roger and Spoletta in Tosca; and an appearance at the Edinburgh International Festival as Ein junger Diener in Elektra with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Karina Canellakis. He also appeared at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw as Victorin and Gaston in Korngold’s Die tote Stadt with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest.
Further engagements include Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos and the Second Nazarene in Salome at the Bayerische Staatsoper, as well as his Canadian Opera Company debut as the Tanzmeister in Ariadne auf Naxos.
Recent operatic highlights include Pong in Christoph Loy’s production of Turandot at Theater Basel, Diener 7 in Capriccio at the Salzburg Festival under Christian Thielemann, and Bob Boles in Peter Grimes at Dutch National Opera under Lorenzo Viotti. A frequent guest at Dutch National Opera, his roles with the company have also included Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte), Spoletta (Tosca), Don Basilio (Le nozze di Figaro), Joe Cannon (Girls of the Golden West), Ein Wirt (Der Rosenkavalier), Der Schneider (Königskinder), and the Third SS Officer in Weinberg’s Die Passagierin. He originated the role of Man Ray in Willem Jeths’s Ritratto.
On the concert stage, van Lierop has appeared in Elektra with Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker, Hans Abrahamsen’s The Snow Queen with Kent Nagano, Bach’s Cantata BWV 149 with Helmuth Rilling at the Stuttgart Bach Festival, and Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest under Markus Stenz. He has also performed Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with the Kammerakademie Potsdam. His repertoire includes Handel’s Messiah, which he has performed with orchestras in Europe and North America, and Johannes Helstone’s Het pand der goden with the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Otto Tausk.
Born in Canada, van Lierop studied at McGill University and Yale University before joining the Dutch National Opera Studio, where he worked under the artistic leadership of Sophie de Lint and studio director Rosemary Joshua.
