Lauren
Skuce

Lauren Skuce sang the role of Heloise in the 2002 world première of Stephen Paulus’ Heloise and Abelard with the Juilliard Opera Center and of Ophelia in Kievman’s Hamlet with the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. In 2004 she sang in three rarely heard works by Shostakovich at the Bard Summerscape Festival. During the current season she is singing for the first time the roles of the Countess in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with Lyric Opera of Kansas City and of Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust at Palm Beach Opera. She made her New York recital debut in Alice Tully Hall in November of 2002 and sang at Carnegie Hall in Pergolesi’s Stabat mater with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in 2001. She has received numerous scholarships, including the Sullivan Award and the DeRosa Career Grant.