This week, Oliver’s guest is Lucas Meachem, one of the busiest baritones in the business. Meachem curates a playlist of some of his favorite recordings of Figaro’s aria “Largo al factotum” — the hardest aria in in the lyric baritone repertoire — from Rossini’s The Barber of Seville.
Factotum of the opera world, Meachem is currently wrapping up a run in the title role of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at Santa Fe Opera, will star in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s upcoming Pagliacci: The Movie, and has just announced the release of his first solo album.
Sara Jakubiak and Lucas Meachem in Santa Fe Opera’s 2021 ‘Eugene Onegin’ (Photo: Curtis Brown for the Santa Fe Opera)