Lukas Enoch Lemcke is already making a name for himself as a promising young singer of the next generation with his “beautiful, full-sounding” bass (FAZ, May 3, 2025).

He will open his 2025/26 season as Antonio in the world premiere of Johanna Doderer’s Der tollste Tag and as Sarastro in a revival of The Magic Flute at the State Theater at the Gärtnerplatz in Munich. In new productions at his home theater, he will also appear as Herr Schlendrian (Kaffeekantate), Skula (Prince Igor), and Dottore Grenvil (La traviata). He will also continue to sing Leporello (Don Giovanni) and Zuniga (Carmen), among other roles. On the concert stage, he will return to the Tyrolean Festival Erl with Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and take on the title role in Mendelssohn’s Paulus with the Symphonic Choir Konstanz. At the end of the season, he will make his house debut at a major festival.

In the 2024/25 season, he sang Leporello (Don Giovanni) and Zuniga (Carmen) at the Gärtnerplatz-Theater, among other roles, as well as various revivals such as The Magic Flute. He also appeared in several productions at the Tyrolean Festival in Erl: Parsifal (2nd Knight of the Grail) under Asher Fisch with General Director Jonas Kaufmann in the title role, La traviata (Marchese d’Obigny) and Rigoletto (Conte Ceprano), as well as Bach’s Christmas Oratorio on the second Sunday of Advent and the St. Matthew’s Passion (words of Jesus) on Good Friday. In his debut at the Schubertiade in Hohenems, he presented songs by Schubert, Wolf, and Loewe together with legendary pianist Helmut Deutsch.

Since the 2023/24 season, he has been a member of the ensemble at the State Theater at the Gärtnerplatz. In his first season there, he appeared in roles such as Sarastro (The Magic Flute), Alidoro (La cenerentola), Prof. Würmchen (The Bird Trader) and Bogdanowitsch (The Merry Widow). In March 2024, he made his house debut as Sarastro at the Baden State Theater Karlsruhe in a production by General Director Dr. Ulrich Peters. He also appeared in The Magic Flute at the Saarpolygon Opera Festival.

In 2021/22, he made his house debut at the Vienna State Opera, where he has since appeared in several productions, including Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria and the title role in Ludger Vollmer’s opera Tschick.

On the concert stage, he has performed in works such as J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, J.D. Zelenka’s Missa Nativitatis Domini, Pietro Mascagni’s Messa di Gloria, and Schubert’s Mass in B flat major.

The young bass is also already in demand as a lieder singer. Recitals have taken him to Vienna, Regensburg, and the Breisgau, among other places. In May 2024, he gave recitals at the Vatican and, with Prof. Justus Zeyen at the piano, at the Hohe Tauern Festival in Mittersill. Together with pianist Manfred Schiebel, he released his first CD in 2024 with art songs by Schubert, Loewe, Wolf, and Strauss on the Preiser Classics label.

Lukas Enoch Lemcke comes from Regensburg. He received his training from the Regensburger Domspatzen and tenor Brent Lee Damkier, among others. In 2017, he was accepted into the preparatory course at the Private University of Music and the Arts Vienna under Prof. Manfred Equiluz. A year later, he became a full-time student there and graduated with a bachelor’s degree with “summa cum laude” in 2022. In the fall of the same year, he began his master’s degree with Univ.-Prof. Karlheinz Hanser at the University of Music and Performing Arts, also in Vienna.

He also received musical inspiration from Prof. Helga Mayer-Wagner, Prof. Helge Dorsch, Dr. Christiane Iven, KS René Pape, KS Evgeny Nesterenko, Michael Kraus, Andrea Mastroni, Univ.-Prof. Justus Zeyen, and Helmut Deutsch.

In October 2022, Lukas Enoch Lemcke was awarded the Gottlob Frick Medal at the celebration of its 25th anniversary and opened the ceremony with a musical performance. In 2023, he was a prizewinner at the Ada Sari Competition and took second place at the Anneliese Rothenberger Competition.