Claire Booth
Overview
Claire gained both a double First in Modern History and a Rowing Blue from Oxford University before studying at both the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the National Opera Studio where she was the recipient of the 2006 Susan Chilcott Award. She has sung leading roles for the Royal Opera, Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera amongst others, and concert performances have taken her as far afield as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic and Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Recent engagements: Title role in Handel’s Berenice (ROH); Elena in the world premiere of Woolf’s A Feast in the Time of Plague (Grange Park Opera); Nitocris Belshazzar (Grange Festival); and concert appearances with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, The Philharmonia and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.