Laura Claycomb

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Full Name	Laura Claycomb
Occupation	Singer
Date Of Birth	Aug 23, 1968(1968-08-23)
Age	56
Birthplace	Corpus Christi
Country	United States
Birth City	Texas
Horoscope	Leo

Laura Claycomb Biography

Laura Claycomb is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on August 23, 1968 in Corpus Christi, Texas, United States. She sang as the soprano soloist for Carmina Burana during the opening at the Blossom Festival in conjunction with her orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra with Franz Welser-Most conducting. She was also in the Messiah and with the Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall She was also back together with Pierre Boulez for the title role in Stravinsky’s Rossignol and also with Matthias Pintscher in Debussy’s Le Martyr de St. Sebastien. Together with Sir Roger Norrington and the Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, Claycomb has performed on tours in the role of Teresa as Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini (recorded for Hanssler Classics) and as the soloist for soprano as a soloist in Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony. As part of The San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas she performed the music of Schoenberg’s Herzgewachse, as well as Toch’s Chinesische Flote, concerts and recordings of Mahler’s fourth Symphony for the San Francisco Symphony’s private label. She also recorded Mahler’s eighth Symphony as well as concerts featuring Strauss’ Brentano Lieder. In concert with the London Symphony Orchestra, Claycomb sang Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel with Richard Hickox conducting Mahler’s second symphony, which featured Andrew Davis conducting, Carmina Burana, and Barber’s Knoxville in 1915’s Summer with Hickox conducting in addition to performances that featured Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini with Sir Colin Davis (recorded for the LSO Live label). In the last few months, she sang with in the LSO for Mahler’s 4th Symphony in collaboration together with Valery Gergiev. They performed in London in London and Athens.

She began her career with San Francisco Opera where she was awarded an Adler fellowship. She sang parts such as Xenia from Boris Godunov, Papagena in Die Zauberflote, Duchesse Medina-Sidonia in Milhaud’s Christoph Colombe Marie of La Fille du regiment and Fiakermilli in Arabella. Her debut performance as Zerbinetta as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos was the reason for the return of her back to San Francisco Opera in 2002. She reprised the role at the Richard- Strauss-Festspiele in Garmisch with Ulf Schirmer, Los Angeles Opera and at Houston Grand Opera.

Claycomb also has a close relationship with Baroque conductor Emmanuelle Haïm, and performed a varied French and Italian Baroque repertoire with Haïm on tour in the United States (St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and New World Symphony) and with her group Le Concert d’Astrée at the Aldeburgh Festival, in Paris, on tour in France, on BBC radio. The soprano performed excerpts with countertenor David Daniels at the 2007 Cortona Festival in Italy with Haïm and le Concert d’Astrée. Her first recording collaboration with Haïm is Händel’s Arcadian duets on Virgin Veritas/EMI. In December 2011, she celebrated the orchestra’s 10-year anniversary in a Gala at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, rebroadcast by France Musique.

In the Baroque style, she has sung with some of the world’s most renowned early music conductors and ensembles. She sang Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Montpellier, Drusilla in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Netherlands Opera, and Fedra in Traetta’s Ippolito ed Aricia in Montpellier with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques. She reprised the role of Cleopatra for the Drottningholm Festival with Roy Goodman conducting and more recently at Houston Grand Opera with music director Patrick Summers. With Richard Hickox, Claycomb debuted the role of Morgana in Alcina at English National Opera. With Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, she debuted the role of Ginevra in Ariodante at L’Opéra Garnier in Paris; Claycomb reprised the role in Munich with Harry Bicket. She debuted the title role of Semele at the Flemish Opera with Michael Hofstetter conducting. In 2008, she sang Polissena in Radamisto in a new David Alden production at Santa Fe with Harry Bicket conducting.

Following his triumph in Houston Grand Opera as Gilda in Rigoletto in 2001, Claycomb forged a special connection with the audience in Houston as he returned in the role of Lucia di Lammermoor, Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare, Ilia in Idomeneo and the role that he was given as La Fille du Regiment.

Laura Claycomb Net Worth

Laura Claycomb is one of the richest Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Laura Claycomb 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Laura Claycomb (born August 23 in 1968) is an American soprano lyric coloratura opera singer.

Her name was noticed by the world at first in the year 1994 when she her appearance at the very last minute to play Giulietta on stage in I Capuleti e i Montecchi with Geneva Opera. The role was also the stage for her debut performance at the Opera Bastille in Paris, as part of her fellow musicians, the Munich Radio Orchestra, Los Angeles Opera and Pittsburgh Opera.

In modern music, she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival in Peter Sellars’s new production of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, reprising the role of Amanda in the same production at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. She can be heard on the Grammy-nominated recording of Le Grand Macabre for Sony with Esa- Pekka Salonen conducting. Concerts of Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel (role debut as Gretel) with the London Symphony Orchestra, Copland’s The Tender Land (role debut as Laurie Moss), The Rake’s Progress (role debut as Anne Trulove) all at London’s Barbican, as well as Mistress Page in Vaughan Williams’ Sir John in Love in Newcastle with the Northern Sinfonia and its recording for Chandos are some highlights of her operatic collaboration with conductor Richard Hickox. Claycomb debuted Cunegonde in Candide at Opera Pacific with John Demain. In 2006, Claycomb originated the role of Queen Wealtheow in Elliot Goldenthal’s opera Grendel in a Julie Taymor production with Los Angeles Opera and Lincoln Center Festival. She added Anne Trulove in the Rake’s Progress to her stage roles in 2007 with a new Robert LePage production she originated at Brussels’ Théâtre de la Monnaie and reprised at Opéra de Lyon. In 2015, Claycomb created the role of Hester Prynne in world premiere of Lori Laitman’s The Scarlet Letter at Opera Colorado as well as singing Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish (Symphony No. 3) for the first time with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Turin.

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Top Facts about Laura Claycomb

1. Laura Claycomb is an American coloratura soprano.
2. She has performed in major opera houses worldwide.
3. Claycomb has won numerous awards and accolades for her performances.
4. She is known for her interpretations of Mozart and bel canto roles.
5. Claycomb has recorded several albums, including a Grammy-nominated one.
6. She is also a dedicated voice teacher and mentor to young singers.
7. Claycomb advocates for diversity and inclusion in the opera industry.
8. She holds degrees from Baylor University and the University of North Texas.
9. Claycomb made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2003 as Gilda in Rigoletto.
10. Her repertoire includes over 60 operatic roles across multiple languages.