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

British contralto Claudia Huckle studied at the Royal College of Music, The New England Conservatory and The Curtis Institute of Music. She was a 2004 Grand Final winner of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and is a graduate of the prestigious Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program at Washington National Opera.

Claudia is currently a member of the ensemble of Leipzig Opera where her roles include Olga Eugene Onegin; Hänsel Hänsel und Gretel, Third Lady Die Zauberflöe, Clarice/Linetta in Prokofiev The Love for Three Oranges, Voice from Above and Flower Maiden Parsifal; Flora La Traviata; Flosshilde Das Rheingold, First Maid Elektra; Schwertleite Die Walküre, Venus in Kurt Weil One touch of Venus, and Singer in Puccini Manon Lescaut.

Other current and future plans include Olga Eugene Onegin in a new Deborah Warner production for English National Opera; Smeton in Donizetti Anna Bolena for Washington National Opera and Hänsel Hänsel und Gretel for Garsington Opera.

Recent opera performances have included the Duchess in Torsten Rasch's new opera The Duchess of Malfi and Pitti-Sing The Mikado for English National Opera; the Forester's Wife The Cunning Little Vixen for Deutsche Oper Berlin; Third Lady Die Zauberflöte for Dresden Semperoper; The Page Salomé for Santa Fe Opera; The Fox  The Little Prince for Boston Lyric Opera; Emilia in Rossini Otello with Washington Concert Opera and the Slave Salomé with The National Symphony Orchestra, Washington.

As a Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist, Claudia’s roles with Washington National Opera have included: Irene Tamerlano with Plácido Domingo and David Daniels; Second Maid in Strauss Elektra; Countess Ceprano Rigoletto; Hansel Hansel and Gretel; Kate Pinkerton Madama Butterfly and Siegrune Die Walküre with Domingo as Sigmund.

On the concert platform Claudia has sung Mozart’s Requiem and Bach St Matthew Passion on a US and European tour with the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists and Sir John Eliot Gardiner; Handel Messiah with the Milwaukee and Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestras and with The National Symphony Orchestra, Washington

Claudia has been the recipient of the Sybil Tutton Award, a prize-winner at both the Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition and the Sullivan Foundation Competition and the Grand Final Winner of the Thelma King Award for Singers.

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