Claire Johnson (Soprano)
Claire studied singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as a part-time vocal student whilst studying at Oxford Brookes University for a B.A. (Honours) in Music and Publishing. She completed post-graduate singing studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire with Pamela Cook M.B.E. and Howard Milner, subsequently undertaking advanced Masterclass tuition with the late Anthony Rolfe Johnson C.B.E.
Claire is in popular demand as a Midlands concert soloist and has performed extensively in a wide variety of principal operatic roles including Tatyana in Eugene Onegin and Preziosilla in La Forza del Destino for Royal Sutton Opera; Anna in Moses, Konchakovna in Prince Igor and the title role in Carmen for Midland Music Makers Opera; Tebaldo in Don Carlos and First Lady in The Magic Flute for Bel Canto Opera; Carolina in The Secret Marriage, Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera, Adele in Die Fledermaus and Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. Claire has also worked with Spa Opera Group as Phyllis in Iolanthe, as Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street for Birmingham and Midland Operatic Society at the Birmingham Hippodrome and with Stratford-upon-Avon Gilbert & Sullivan Society in the title roles of Patience and Princess Ida and as Josephine in HMS Pinafore, Yum-Yum in The Mikado and Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance at the RSC Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Together with her husband Tim, Claire is currently joint Artistic Director of Consensus Opera, a small ensemble of skilled Stratford-based actors and singers bringing opera to a wider public in a new and innovative way, whilst at the same time raising funds for worthy local charitable causes.
Claire is also an experienced violinist and you may previously have seen her playing first violin with the Beauchamp Sinfonietta!
Claire studied singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as a part-time vocal student whilst studying at Oxford Brookes University for a B.A. (Honours) in Music and Publishing. She completed post-graduate singing studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire with Pamela Cook M.B.E. and Howard Milner, subsequently undertaking advanced Masterclass tuition with the late Anthony Rolfe Johnson C.B.E.
Claire is in popular demand as a Midlands concert soloist and has performed extensively in a wide variety of principal operatic roles including Tatyana in Eugene Onegin and Preziosilla in La Forza del Destino for Royal Sutton Opera; Anna in Moses, Konchakovna in Prince Igor and the title role in Carmen for Midland Music Makers Opera; Tebaldo in Don Carlos and First Lady in The Magic Flute for Bel Canto Opera; Carolina in The Secret Marriage, Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera, Adele in Die Fledermaus and Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. Claire has also worked with Spa Opera Group as Phyllis in Iolanthe, as Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street for Birmingham and Midland Operatic Society at the Birmingham Hippodrome and with Stratford-upon-Avon Gilbert & Sullivan Society in the title roles of Patience and Princess Ida and as Josephine in HMS Pinafore, Yum-Yum in The Mikado and Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance at the RSC Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Together with her husband Tim, Claire is currently joint Artistic Director of Consensus Opera, a small ensemble of skilled Stratford-based actors and singers bringing opera to a wider public in a new and innovative way, whilst at the same time raising funds for worthy local charitable causes.
Claire is also an experienced violinist and you may previously have seen her playing first violin with the Beauchamp Sinfonietta!
