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British mezzo-soprano Claire Barnett-Jones is fast becoming one of the most sought-after voices on the operatic stage and the concert platform, recently being named amongst Operawire’s Top 10 Rising Stars after being a Finalist and Winner of the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021.

In the 2023-24 season, Claire returned to Oper Frankfurt for her role debut as Mescalina in a new production of Le Grand Macabre conducted by Thomas Guggeis, joined Scottish Opera for concert performances as Gaea Daphne , the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for Beethoven’s Mass in C and returned to the London Symphony Orchestra as Barena/Pastuchnya in Jenůfa conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. She also made her company debut with Dutch National Opera as The Government in the world premiere of The Shell Trial and joined Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra as Second Norn Götterdämmerung , as well as Stephen Barlow and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder. Forthcoming, Claire will return to Dutch National Opera as Mrs Sedley in Barbora Horáková Joly’s new production of Peter Grimes and appears at Longborough Festival Opera as Waltraute Götterdämmerung. She will make house debuts at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Bregenz Festival, Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos and the Bayerische Staatsoper.

In recent years, highlights have included her company debut at the Bayreuther Festspiele as 2nd Norn Götterdämmerung and Waltraute Die Walküre, her French operatic debut as Jezibaba in Rusalka at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, role and company debuts as Fricka Die Walküre at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl in Austria and as Madame Flora The Medium for Oper Frankfurt, her European concert debut at The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in Schumann’s Szenen aus Goethes Faust, Sosostris in Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and her BBC Proms debut with a solo recital as part of the Proms at Birmingham 2022.

In 2017, Claire was presented with the Wessex Glyndebourne Association Award for a young singer of much promise, and in 2018 made her Glyndebourne Festival Debut as 2nd Noble Orphan in Der Rosenkavalier, and performed Annina La Traviata for Glyndebourne Touring Opera later that year. She subsequently made her company debut with English National Opera as Eurydice Myth/Persephone in Birtwistle’s The Mask of Orpheus, and was awarded the Lilian Baylis Award for Outstanding Potential in the Field of Opera in recognition of her exceptional stage debut. Claire was a member of the English National Opera Harewood Artist Programme from 2020-2022.