Ralf Lukas

  • Originally from Bayreuth
  • Studied at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Aribert Reimann, and Hans Hotter
  • 1991: 1st prize at the Internationalen Vocalisten Concours s’Hertogenbosch
  • Launched his career with roles such as Papageno (Zauberflöte), Leporello (Don Giovanni), Schaunard (La Bohème), and Paolo Albiani (Simon Boccanegra) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; further development through parts like the King’s Herald (Lohengrin), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), and Amfortas (Parsifal), all the way to the Flying Dutchman in Katharina Wagner’s critically acclaimed first production, followed by Wotan and the Wanderer (Der Ring des Nibelungen), among others in Münster, at the state theaters in Wiesbaden and Darmstadt, and in Cologne, Rome, Riga, and Macau
  • Performed regularly at the Bayreuther Festspiele between 2006 and 2012 as Donner, Gunther, and Melot; 2008: a highly successful debut at the Staatstheater in Darmstadt as Hans Sachs (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)
  • Barak (Die Frau ohne Schatten) at the New National Theatre in Tokyo; Donner in Das Rheingold at the Liceu in Barcelona; the Dutchman at the Düsseldorfer Rheinoper; Hans Sachs in a guest appearance at the Staatsoper Hannover
  • 1012/13: Debuts as Wozzeck and Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde)
  • 2014/15: First appearance as Dr. Schön/Jack the Ripper (Lulu) at the Royal Opera House, Copenhagen, in Detlev Glanert’s Caligula at the Staatstheater Hannover, as Hans Sachs at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, and as Don Alfonso (Cosi Fan Tutte) at the Cuvilliés-Theater in Munich
  • 2016: sings the part of Emil Jannings in the premiere of Oscar Strasnoy’s Comeback at the Berliner Staatsoper; 2017: rounds out the ensemble in the new Tannhäuser under Kirill Petrenko at the Bayrische Staatsoper
  • Has worked with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Sir Colin Davis, Armin Jordan, Philippe Jordan, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur, Sir Roger Norrington, Seiji Ozawa, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Christian Thielemann, and Kirill Petrenko
  • Guest appearances as a sought-after concert singer with a wide-ranging repertoire, among others in Berlin, Brussels, Hamburg, Madrid, Munich, Paris, Rome, Sao Paulo, and Vienna, as well as at festivals in Montpellier, the London Proms, Salzburg, Lucerne, Rheingau, and Schleswig-Holstein
  • Has participated in numerous radio and television broadcasts (ZDF, SFB, MDR, BR, Radio France, RAI, RTE)
  • Numerous CD and DVD recordings
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