CLAIRE RUTTER Born in South Shields, County Durham, in the north of England, the soprano Claire Rutter studied in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at the National Opera Studio sponsored by The Friends of English National Opera. She won numerous awards, which enabled her to study with Ileana Cotrubas. She now studies with Gerald Martin Moore. For three years she was a principal with Scottish Opera, with rôles that included that of Violetta in La traviata, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Gilda in Rigoletto, the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, Elettra in Idomeneo, and Terinka in The Jacobin, this last also for the Edinburgh International Festival. She sang the title rôle in Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco at the Ludwigshafen Festival with Opera North, Lucia di Lammermoor with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and Mimì in La Bohème in Hong Kong and in the Beijing International Festival. She has also sung both Violetta and Gilda for both English National Opera and Welsh National Opera. She won the highest praise for her performances of La Gioconda for Opera North. Her recordings include highlights from La Bohème and Madama Butterfly with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a selection of Puccini arias with the London Symphony Orchestra. She regularly broadcasts both staged opera and opera gala concerts on BBC Radio. Claire Rutter’s concert performances have included Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder, Verdi’s Requiem, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Petite Messe Solennelle, Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, Tippett’s A Child of Our Time, Canteloube’s Songs of the Auvergne, and Brahms’s Requiem in appearances at all of Britain’s major concert halls, with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Scottish, Hallé, Royal Scottish National, English Chamber and Scottish Chamber orchestras.
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