Laura Claycomb

Laura Claycomb (born August 23, 1968 in Corpus Christi / Texas ) is an American singer (coloratura soprano).

Claycomb studied at Southern Methodist University and the San Francisco Opera Center . In 1992 she won the operetta prize at the Belvedere Competition in Vienna and in 1994 the silver medal at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition. In the same year she achieved her international breakthrough in Geneva as a substitute in the role of Giulietta in Vincenzo Bellini's I Capuleti ei Montecchi . She was then seen and heard as Ismene in Graham Vick 's production of Mitridate, re di Ponto .

She sang the role of Gilda in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto in Paris and Houston, in Lausanne, Tel Aviv, Toronto, Bilbao, Pittsburgh, Salerno and Santiago de Chile. She sang Belcanto parts a. a. 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 in Milan . She made her debut as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos at the San Francisco Opera under 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 . She appeared as Ophelie in Ambroise Thomas ' Hamlet at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste under Jean-Yves Ossonce , as Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin under Sebastian Weigle and as Morgana in Georg Friedrich 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 and performed a. a. as Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare and as Ginevra in Ariodante . Clasycomb is also active in the field of new music. a. in Le Grand Macabre in Salzburg and in Paris. She sang a recording of the opera for Sony under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen . With Hickox she developed works by Aaron Copland , Ralph Vaughan Williams , Engelbert Humperdinck and Igor Stravinsky .

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