Laura Claycomb |

Laura Claycomb

Laura Claycombe is one of the most versatile and profound artists of her generation: she is equally recognized in the baroque repertoire, in the operas of the greatest Italian and French composers of the XNUMXth century, and in contemporary music.

In 1994, she took second place at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. In the same year she made her debut at the Geneva Opera as Juliet in Vincenzo Bellini’s Capuleti e Montecchi. In the same part, she later made her debut at the Bastille Opera and the Los Angeles Opera. In 1997, the singer made her debut at the Salzburg Festival as Amanda in Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre with Esa-Pekka Salonen.

In 1998, Laura made her debut at La Scala, where she sang the title role in Donizetti’s Linda di Chamouni.

Other key roles in the singer’s repertoire include Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Lucia di Lammermoor in Donizetti’s opera of the same name, Cleopatra in Julius Caesar, Morgana in Handel’s Alcina, Juliet in Bellini’s Capulets and Montecchi, Olympia in Tales of Hoffmann” by Offenbach, Ophelia in “Hamlet” by Tom, Zerbinetta in “Ariadne auf Naxos” by R. Strauss.

In 2010, Laura Claycomb, along with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, received a Grammy Award for their recording of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony.

In the same year, she took part in the Second Grand Festival of the Russian National Orchestra in Moscow, as well as in a concert performance of Offenbach’s opera The Tales of Hoffmann, performing the roles of all four main characters.