Claudia Celeste Huckle
Mezzo-soprano
New England First Place Winner,2004	photos
National Council Winner, 2004	review

British mezzo-soprano Claudia Huckle was the grand final winner of the 2004 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and was a 2008 graduate of the prestigious Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program at Washington National Opera.

Engagements for this season include the Forester's Wife in The Cunning Little Vixen
with Deutsche Oper Berlin (debut), Handel's Messiah with the Ann Arbor Symphony, Irene in Tamerlano with Opera by Definition, Mercedes in Carmen with Leipzig Oper and Carmen with Schlossoper Haldenstein in Switzerland. Miss Huckle will become a member of the ensemble at Leipzig Oper this August.

Roles for Washington National Opera included Irene in Tamerlano with Plácido Domingo and David Daniels, 2nd Maid in Elektra, Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Siegrune in Francesca Zambello’s production of Die Walküre with Plácido Domingo as Sigmund and the role of Karolka in Jenufa (cover). She also performed La Ciesca, Dorabella and Zerlina in the Young Artist performances of Gianni Schicchi, Così fan tutte and Don Giovanni.

Ms. Huckle was an apprentice artist at Santa Fe Opera in 2006 and 2007 where she sang the Page in Salome, covered Anne-Sofie von Otter as Carmen, and also covered the Third Lady in The Magic Flute and Dorabella in Così fan tutte. She has also performed Zerlina for Opera de Monte-Carlo, The Fox in The Little Prince for
Boston Lyric Opera and Nancy and Mrs Herring in Albert Herring, Third Lady in The Magic Flute and Dryade in Ariadne auf Naxos, all for the Curtis Institute Opera Theater.

Concert performances have included Mozart’s Requiem and Bach’s St Matthew Passion on US and European tours with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists under Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Handel’s Messiah with the Milwaukee Symphony and the National Symphony Orchestra, (Washington DC) the role of Emilia in Rossini’s Otello with Washington Concert Opera and the role of the Slave in a concert performance of Salome with the National Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Huckle has also been a young artist at the Steans Institute for Young Artists at the
Ravinia Festival where she performed solo song recitals.

In addition to winning the grand finals of the 2004 Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, Ms. Huckle has also been a recipient of the Sybil Tutton Award, a prizewinner at the Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition and the Sullivan Foundation Competition, and the grand final winner of the Thelma King Award for Singers.

Ms. Huckle studied at the Royal College of Music (Foundation Scholar), New England Conservatory (Presidential Scholar), and the Curtis Institute of Music.

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