[2][3] Lucas Meachem was born and raised in Carthage, North Carolina and grew up singing karaoke before discovering opera.
[5] He had his big break soon after that in 2006, when he was discovered at a karaoke bar in Paris by acclaimed mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, who suggested he step in for Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride at the Lyric Opera of Chicago from which the international star baritone Simon Keenlyside had withdrawn.
[5] Meachem made his Metropolitan Opera debut as General Rayevsky in War and Peace in 2008,[6] and has since performed at the Met as Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette, Silvio in Pagliacci, Marcello in La bohème.
[9][10] In 2021, Meachem performed the role of Figaro in an abridged English-language adaptation of The Barber of Seville for the San Francisco Opera.
[12] Bernstein: A Quiet Place (Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year – Vocal or Choral Performance) The Ghosts of Versailles (GRAMMY WINNER, 59TH AWARDS: Best Opera Recording & Best Engineered Album, Classical) Tchaikovsky: Iolanta (Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra/ Emmanuel Villaume) Der Zigeunerprimas (Ohio Light Opera Orchestra) Dido and Aeneas [Blu-ray] (Actors: Christopher Hogwood, Sarah Connolly, Lucas Meachem, Lucy Crowe, Sara Fulgoni)