Claire Barnett-Jones

British mezzo-soprano Claire Barnett-Jones was the winner of the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021. Recent highlights include her role and company debuts as Fricka Die Walküre at Tiroler Festspiele Erl, and as Madame Flora The Medium for Oper Frankfurt, and Sosostris A Midsummer Marriage with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner. She begins the 2022-2023 season singing Jezibaba in a new production of Rusalka at the Theatre du Capitole de Toulouse. This is Claire’s debut with WNO. Claire studied at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Royal Academy Opera and Guildhall School of Music & Drama and was previously a member of the Harewood Artist programme at ENO.