Clare McCaldin

Clare McCaldin is a lyric mezzo-soprano of outstanding quality who has appeared on the dramatic stage and concert platform at The Salzburg Easter Festival, The Royal Opera, The BBC Proms, BBC Radio 3, Oxford Lieder, The Three Choirs Festival and The Edinburgh International Festival. She has appeared as a soloist with Oliver Knussen, Claudio Abbado, Esa Pekka-Salonen, Sir Antonio Pappano, CHROMA and the Brodsky Quartet. She is known for her recital work and has appeared in partnership with Libby Burgess, Paul Turner, Andrew West, Simon Lepper and Iain Burnside. She has a significant solo discography of contemporary song repertoire.

Clare is noted for her advocacy of new music. Through her company McCaldin Arts, she has produced a number of solo shows. These range from narrated entertainments using existing repertoire – Haydn’s London Ladies (about the composer’s visits to London) and Over My Shoulder (the lives of Elisabeth Schumann and Jessie Matthews) – to brand new works for the stage. The critically-acclaimed Vivienne (about TS Eliot’s first wife) was written for Clare in 2013. Her latest solo opera, Mary’s Hand (on the life of Queen Mary I) was first performed in 2018 and given ✮✮✮✮✮ by The Independent, who described it as “a modest gem of a show” and Clare as “an outstanding singing-actress.”
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