Lunga Eric Hallam

Tenor

Ryan Opera Center Ensemble

Lunga Eric Hallam is sponsored by Ms. Gay K. Stanek, Richard Shepro & Lindsay Roberts, and The Ford, Mages, and Boykins Families.

Third-year Ryan Opera Center tenor Lunga Eric Hallam is from Khayelitsha, South Africa, where he founded a nonprofit organization called Phenomenal Opera Voices. At the University of Cape Town College of Music, he received his diploma and postgraduate (with honors) degrees in music training. Recent engagements as a Young Artist at Cape Town Opera include Tebaldo/I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Edgardo/Lucia di Lammermoor, and Roberto/Maria Stuarda, as well as Ramiro/La Cenerentola at Cape Town Conservatory. He was featured as part of the 2017 Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe. Hallam competed as a semifinalist in the 2019 Neue Stimmen International Singing Competition and the 2019 Voice of South Africa International Singing Competition.Chicago engagements include two appearances at the Harris Theater’s Beyond the Aria series, one alongside Joyce DiDonato, and his recent debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Muti in Un ballo in maschera.

In Lyric’s 2020/21 virtual programming, Hallam was featured in Lawrence Brownlee and Friends: The Next Chapter, Creating The Factotum, Sole e Amore, Magical Music Around the World, and Rising Stars in Concert.

For the 2021/22 season, he performed in Sunday in the Park with Lyric’s Rising Stars and as Adult Nathan/Fire Shut Up in My Bones (Lyric premiere).

During Lyric’s 2022/23 season, Hallam will appear in Le Comte Ory (Lyric premiere).

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"Das Zauberlied” with Martin Luther Clark and the 2020/21 Ryan Opera Center Ensemble

In this lively excerpt from Magical Music Around the World, tenor Martin Luther Clark performs "Das Zauberlied” (“The Magic Song”) with the 2020/21 Ryan Opera Center Ensemble and Music Director Craig Terry on piano.

“La ricordanza” with Lunga Eric Hallam

In this excerpt from Sole e Amore, first-year tenor Lunga Eric Hallam performs Bellini's "La ricordanza" ("The recollection") with Maestro Mazzola on piano. The composer would later give this memorable melody to Elvira, heroine of his final opera, I PURITANI, which was written the year after this song was published.

Sole e Amore (Sun and Love)

Revel in the sounds of Italy with Sole e Amore (Sun and Love), the latest concert from Lyric Opera of Chicago and The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center.

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