This season Lucy Yates music directs Carolina Uccelli's Emma di Resburgo for Teatro Nuovo in New York and plays keyboards for Malik Gaines's Star Choir with LA's The Industry. She was recently seen in Pauline Viardot's Le Dernier Sorcier (The Last Sorcerer), music directing from the keyboard, at The Wallis with Sing for Hope. In November 2022 she made her Lincoln Center debut as maestro al cembalo for Rossini's Maometto II with Teatro Nuovo. In 2020 she joined The Industry on keyboards for Sweet Land (Du Yun/Raven Chacon) and was made a company member. In 2018 she made her conducting debut as maestro al cembalo at Seattle Opera with the highly-praised O+E (Gluck/Calzabigi 1762 Orfeo ed Euridice), in an English version she created for that production. In 2014 she made her Rossini Opera Festival debut as onstage continuo fortepianist and assistant conductor to Will Crutchfield in Mario Martone's staging of Aureliano in Palmira. This performance can be seen on ArtHaus Musik.

An internationally acclaimed soprano, Yates sang roles including Violetta, Gilda, Rosina, Adina, Beatrice di Tenda, Nedda, and Fiordiligi. Her work in Italy and her decades of playing, coaching, and writing led her to become a cogent and lyrical translator and teacher and of Italian poetry; she is known for her verse translations and supertitles. She is Director of Language Studies at Teatro Nuovo. She gives regular master classes on Italian poetics, grammar, and diction. She has served as dramaturg, titlist, and coach for the New York City Opera. She has also served as panelist on the beloved Toll Brothers Metropolitan Opera Radio Quiz, and writer and interviewer for the Santa Fe Opera. She is a Lecturer in Opera in the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA.