Lucy Arner
opera coach, conductor, Italian and French repertoire specialist.
Conductor Lucy Arner brings to the podium a special affinity for Italian and French opera that is enhanced by her vast experience working in some of the world’s greatest opera houses, such as the Liceu in Barcelona and the Metropolitan Opera. She has conducted all over the world, and became the first woman to conduct an opera in Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes. She was the artistic director of the New York Chamber Opera for five years and the principal conductor of the Asociación Bel Canto in Lima, Perú for four years, and was the interim Music Director of the Moores Opera Center at the University of Houston for one year. She made her debut with Florida Grand Opera leading Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, and received the company’s Henry C. Clarke Award as the season’s outstanding conductor. As a pianist, she has appeared in recital and worked with many notable singers, notably Aprile Millo, Placido Domingo, Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti and Alfredo Kraus. She has taught master classes in New York, China, Moscow, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Houston Grand Opera Studio, the Met Guild, Tanglewood and others. Lucy Arner is on the coaching faculty of Mannes College, and is the new Music Director of New Jersey Verismo Opera.
