Laura Claycomb
Laura Claycomb ( born August 23, 1968 in Corpus Christi / Texas ) is an American singer ( coloratura soprano).
Claycomb graduated from Southern Methodist University and the San Francisco Opera Center. She won the 1992 operetta prize at the Belvedere Competition in Vienna in 1994 and the silver medal at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition. In the same year she succeeded in Geneva, the international breakthrough as Einspringerin in the role of Giulietta in Bellini's I Capuleti ei Montecchi.
The role of Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, she sang in Paris and Houston, in Lausanne, Tel Aviv, Toronto, Bilbao, Pittsburgh, Salerno and Santiago de Chile. Bel canto roles she sang, among others in Lucia di Lammermoor, La Fille du Régiment and Linda di Chamounix at the Houston Grand Opera, the Teatro Regio in Turin and at La Scala. She made her debut as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos at the San Francisco Opera conducted by Jun Maerkl, at the Los Angeles Opera under Laurent Pillot, at the Richard Strauss Festival under Ulf Schirmer and at the Houston Grand Opera under Patrick Summers. As Ophelie in Ambroise Thomas ' Hamlet, she joined at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste under Jean- Yves Ossonce on, as Konstanze in The Abduction from the Seraglio at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin under Sebastian Weigle and as Morgana in Handel's Alcina at the English National Opera under Richard Hickox.
As an interpreter of early music Claycomb worked with conductors such as Christophe Rousset, Mark Minkowski, Emmanuelle Haim, Roy Goodman, Harry Bickett and Arnold Östman together and has appeared as Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare and as Ginevra in Ariodante on. Also in the field of new music Clasycomb is active and has appeared and in on Le Grand Macabre in Salzburg and Paris. A recording of the opera, she sang under the direction of Esa -Pekka Salonen Sony. With Hickox she developed works by Aaron Copland, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Engelbert Humperdinck and Igor Stravinsky.
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