Lucy Schaufer has earned critical and popular acclaim as a versatile and distinctive singing actress on the stages of important opera companies, including the Metropolitan Opera (Page in Salome, Flowermaiden in Parsifal, and Suzuki in Madama Butterfly), Los Angeles Opera (Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, the title role in Hansel and Gretel, and Erika in Vanessa ), Washington National Opera and Opera du Rhin Strasbourg (Erika), Opera de Monte Carlo (Erika and Sesto in Giulio Cesare), Hamburg State Opera (Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier and Cornelia in Giulio Cesare), Opera der Stadt Köln (Charlotte in Werther, Olga in Eugene Onegin and Cherubino), New Israeli Opera (Smeraldine in The Love for Three Oranges), English National Opera (title role in Birtwistle's Punch and Judy, Clare de Loone in On the Town, and Amastris in Xerxes), Opera North (Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Johanna in Sweeney Todd), Garsington Opera Festival (Europa in Die Liebe der Danae) and Music Theatre Wales/ROH2 (Thea in The Knot Garden).

In musical theatre, she was Margaret Johnson in the European premiere of Adam Guettel's The Light in the Piazza for The Curve – Leicester and was an original member of City Center's Encores! appearing in performances of Lady in the Dark and One Touch of Venus . She also appeared as Miss Hyde in Very Warm for May conducted by John McGlinn at Weill Recital Hall.

Recordings include Kurt Weill's The Firebrand of Florence (BBCSO/Sir Andrew Davies), Ira Gershwin at 100: Celebration at Carnegie Hall (PBS TV/Rob Fisher), Der Rosenkavalier (ARTE/Simone Young) and Paul Bowles's The Wind Remains (Eos Ensemble/Jonathan Sheffer) for BMG.

In the concert hall, Ms. Schaufer has performed Zeisl's Requiem Ebraico and Bernstein's Kaddish Symphony (Gulbenkian Orchestra), Elgar's Sea Pictures and Musicmakers (Barcelona), songs by Igor Stravinsky with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, as guest soloist performing Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne with the New York City Ballet, and as Orlofsky in Placido Domingo & Friends: LA Opera's 20th Anniversary Gala , when the LA Times singled her out as “the evening's most alluring singer.”
Notable Conductors with whom she has worked include Placido Domingo, Lawrence Foster, Edward Gardner, Valery Gergiev, Alan Gilbert, Julius Rudel, Patrick Summers, Simone Young, Kent Nagano, Peter Schneider, Graeme Jenkins, Steuart Bedford, Antonello Allemandi, Emmanuel Joel, and Sakari Oramo.

Notable directors include Christopher Alden, John Cox, Paul Curran, Martin Duncan, David Fielding, Douglas Fitch, Jürgen Flimm, Stanley Garner, Ian Judge, Jude Kelly, Paul Kerryson, Daniel Kramer, Gunter Krämer, Marco Arturo Marelli, and David McVicar.

Winner of the Vocal Prize at the Aspen Music Festival, she has performed at Tanglewood, Pacific Music Festival and with The New York Festival of Song. A proponent of American music, she sang Ava in the world premiere of Stewart Wallace's Hopper's Wife and the German premiere of Michael Tilson Thomas's The Diary of Anne Frank with the Gürzenich Orchestra.

Recent work includes American Opera Project's workshop and performances of Herschel Garfein's new opera Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead in the roles of Alfred and Osric, directed by Mark Morris and conducted by Steven Osgood. In her new collaboration with Transition_Projects and Netia Jones, she performed Recollections of My Childhood and other songs by Stravinsky at Wilton's Music Hall and Kings Place, London, with Christopher Glynn, pianist.