British mezzo-soprano Claire Barnett-Jones is fast becoming one of the most sought-after voices on the operatic stage and 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.
This 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. She made her French operatic debut singing Jezibaba in Stefano Poda’s new production of Rusalka for Théâtre de Capitole de Toulouse, and forthcoming returns to Bayreuther Festspiele as Waltraute Die Walküre, Dutch National Opera as Mrs Sedley in Barbora Horáková Joly’s new production of Peter Grimes and will make house debuts at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Bregenz Festival, Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos and the Bayerische Staatsoper.