About Me
Nikkei-Canadian baritone, Luka Kawabata is a current member of the Yulanda M Faris Young Artists' Program with Vancouver Opera, having appeared as Dmitri in Wargo's The Music Shop and as Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen: Up Close and Personal in the 2020-2021 Digital Season. He is an alumnus of the Digital Emerging Artist Program with Manitoba Opera and the ‘Opera in the 21st Century' program at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Luka is a mentor for Opera InReach's chapter in British Columbia and has been a featured soloist with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bard on the Beach and the Vancouver Opera/Pacific Opera Victoria's school tour of The Flight of the Hummingbird. Luka is passionate about create art that moves the needle towards an inclusive and equitable future. He is proud to be making his producorial debut with "Paueru-Gai ?????" in Vancouver's IndieFest 2021, celebrating his intersectional lived experience and the history of Japanese immigration to the West Coast of North America. His project "Imposter.???.Bedragare", which explores his experience being raised within a multi-racial identity, is set to premiere in November 2021.