BIOGRAPHY
Lukas Zeman began his studies in bassoon and orchestral conducting in his native Prague, and later pursued advanced vocal training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He studied with S. Hunnego and A. Schroeder at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. He graduated from the Dutch National Opera Academy and continued his professional development with D. Wilson-Johnson, A. Corbelli, M. Hoonig, M. Martineau, and Kammersängerin Hanna Ludwig. He also obtained a diploma from the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence.
Between Lukas Zeman recent engagements the Herald in Lohengrin at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the opening production of the 2022-23 season conducted by Asher Fisch. In January 2023 he appeared as Kuligin in Káťa Kabanová in concert in London with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle, with whom he later collaborated again in Janáček’s The Excursions of Mr. Brouček in London and Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins in Prague. In 2023, at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, he performed in Janáček’s From the House of the Dead, singing the roles of the Young Prisoner Nikita, Ščekunov, and the Cook, in a production directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski. In 2024 he made his debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival as Patroclus in Iphigénie en Aulide, with Emanuelle Haïm conducting, production by Dmitri Tcherniakov, and in 2025 he appeared as Momus in Rameau’s Platée in Prague.
Other notable engagements include Raskatov’s Heart of a Dog at the Opéra de Lyon; Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the theatres of Pisa and Lucca (as Crespel), at the Teatro Goldoni in Livorno and the Teatro Coccia in Novara under the direction of G. Condette; and Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, conducted by J. Valčuha. He has also collaborated with Ensemble Collegium 1704, the Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Il Canto di Orfeo, PhiloMelante, and L’aura rilucente. His repertoire further includes Papageno, Aeneas in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and the roles of Orfeo and Ulisse in operas by Monteverdi. He took part in Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten at Teatro alla Scala under the baton of Ingo Metzmacher. In 2015 he performed in L’Orfeo (Shepherd, Spirit, Apollo), conducted by R. Balconi, as part of the musical events of EXPO Milan. He has sung Tippett’s A Child of Our Time at Dartington.
In the previous season he appeared as Kuligin in Káťa Kabanová in a production by Robert Carsen at the Teatro Regio di Torino, conducted by Marco Angius, he sang Jontek in Moniuszko’s Halka in Kraków and the title role in Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the Pilsen Opera, later revived at the Margravial Opera in Bayreuth. Janáček’s Osud and Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the Ostrava Opera can also be mentioned, as well as Oreste in Iphigénie en Tauride in Opava at the Silesian Theatre, and Bach’s St Matthew Passion at the Auditorium di Milano. In the 2019–20 season he sang Ottokar in Der Freischütz at the Opava Opera, Les Boréades at the Theater an der Wien as well as in Versailles and Moscow, and Pantalone in The Love for Three Oranges under conductor Ward at the National Theatre in Prague. He also portrayed Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro in Opava, performed Janáček’s Christmas Cantata with the Ostrava Philharmonic, and sang Kuligin in Káťa Kabanová at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, conducted by David Robertson in a production by Richard Jones.
Lukas Zeman regularly gives solo recitals throughout Europe, as well as in India, Japan, and New Zealand.
