Claire Watson

Claire Watson ( born February 3, 1927 in New York; † July 16, 1986 in Utting a.Ammersee ) was an American opera singer. Your domain were the lyric soprano roles of Mozart, Strauss and Verdi.

Watson studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. In the 1950s, she began her career at the Frankfurt Opera. From 1958 to 1976 she was a member of the Bavarian State Opera, where she was in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, among other things Elisabeth in Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser and Tatjana. Guest engagements have also led to the Vienna State Opera, Bayreuth and Covent Garden. With the role of the Marschallin in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, she gave in July 1976 in Munich their farewell to the stage.

Watson was married to the chamber singer David Thaw. She died at the age of 59 from a brain tumor. Her grave can be found in the village cemetery of Holzhausen near Utting. Located in Munich's Neuhausen- Nymphenburg, a street was named after the singer.

• Opera singer
• Soprano
• American musician
• Born 1927
• Died in 1986
• Woman