Layla Claire | |
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 Claire outside the Metropolitan Opera, May 2015. | |
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| Born | 1982 (age 41–42) Penticton, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Occupation(s) | Opera singer (soprano) |
| Website | laylaclaire |
Layla Claire (born 1982) is a Canadian soprano opera singer.
She was born in Penticton, British Columbia. She is a graduate of the Lindemann Young Artist at the Metropolitan Opera, where she made her debut as Tebaldo in Verdi's Don Carlos in 2010. [1] [2] She studied at Université de Montréal and graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2009. [3] She was awarded the Prix des Amis d'Aix-en-Provence for best Mozart performance for her 2012 European debut as Sandrina (' La finta giardiniera ) and has since made acclaimed debuts at the Salzburg Festival as Donna Elvira ( Don Giovanni ), Opernhaus Zürich as the Governess ( The Turn of the Screw ), Washington National Opera as Blanche de la Force ( Dialogues des Carmélites ), Canadian Opera Company as Fiordiligi ( Cosi fan tutte ), Glyndebourne Festival Opera as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe as Tusnelda ( Arminio ), and returned to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera as Anne Truelove ( The Rake's Progress ). Ms. Claire has worked with major conductors including Tilson-Thomas, Nézet-Séguin, Haitink, Langrée and Hrůša in works by Mahler, Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart and Dvořák. She sang Cathy in the French stage premiere of Herrmann's Wuthering Heights in Nancy in May 2019 conducted by Jacques Lacombe. [4]
Layla Claire's repertoire includes: [5]
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