Grammy® Award winning soprano Laura Claycomb has firmly established herself as one of the finest operatic coloratura sopranos of her generation, best known for her ethereal high notes, impeccable musicianship, and dramatic stage presence. Ms. Claycomb has appeared repeatedly with the Paris Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Théâtre de la Monnaie, the London Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Le Concert d’Astrée, and the Cleveland Orchestra. Further career highlights range from engagements at the Salzburg Festival and the Lucerne Festival, to the BBC Proms and the title role of Linda di Chamounix at Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Part of 2019 was spent on maternity leave, while 2020/2021 saw Laura singing Mahler’s 4th symphony with the Fort Worth Symphony and Roberto Abbado, Lutoslawski’s Chantefleurs et Chantefables with the Bergen Philharmonic and Lionel Bringuier, as well as concerts of Poulenc’s Stabat Mater with Torino VocalEnsemble, Davide Benetti and Antonio Valentino at the MITO Festival. 2018-2019 found her in Dallas for her first Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, in Paris for Stabat Maters by Scarlatti and Pergolesi with Speranza Scappucci and Il Pomo D’Oro, in Israel for Mozart with Alexander Bernstein and the Israel Camerata, in a recital and masterclass tour in the U.S., and with the Houston Symphony for Carmina Burana. 2016/17 found Laura in Beijing, China as Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in Geneva as Malwina in Marschner’s Der Vampyr, in concerts led by Emmanuelle Haïm with Le Concert D’Astrée at Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Disney Hall, as well as in Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3 (Kaddish) with Marin Alsop and the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican. 2015/16 saw Laura as Tytania with the Bergen National Opera, as Ophélie in a concert version of Hamlet in Moscow, as well as Strauss’ Brentano Lieder with the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson-Thomas, the title role in the world premiere of Lori Laitman’s The Scarlet Letter and galas in Israel. The 2014-2015 season saw her as Amina in La sonnambula at the Bolshoi Theater, concert engagements with the Oregon Symphony and Palermo Opera for Carmina Burana, Mercury Baroque in a performance with David Daniels, as Lucia di Lammermoor with New Orleans Opera, Cunegonde in Candide with Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with Maestra Speranza Scapucci, likewise in Florence. In the 2013-2014 season Ms. Claycomb made her Glyndebourne debut as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos with music director Vladimir Jurowsky conducting, which was released on DVD/BlueRay. Additionally, she sang her first Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte and Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor with the Bregenz Festival, reprised her Adele in Die Fledermaus at Houston Grand Opera, returned to the Israeli Philharmonic for Carmina Burana and to the San Francisco Symphony for Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, debuted the role of the Czarina of Shemakha in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel with Bergen Opera, and returned to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Swedish Radio Orchestra in Lutoslawski’s Chantefleurs et Chantefables with Lionel Bringuier. Ms. Claycomb began her career as an Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera, where she performed over a dozen roles including Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, and Marie in La fille du régiment. She first captured international attention at the age of 24, when she assumed the role of Giulietta in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. She has since sung Giulietta with the Bastille Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Karlsruhe Opera and the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchester in Munich. Since her meteoric rise to prominence, Ms. Claycomb has proven herself to be an exceptionally versatile soprano, performing more than 75 roles in dozens of works by composers from Monteverdi to Messiaen. Ms. Claycomb has emerged as a concert repertoire powerhouse, having performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Les Arts Florissants, among those already mentioned. She has tackled soloist roles in Orff’s Carmina burana (National Symphony, LA Philharmonic and Danish Radio Symphony with the late Frühbeck de Burgos), Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Faure’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis and oratorio Christus am Ölberge, the latter with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Ms. Claycomb is among today’s foremost Mahler sopranos, having sung solos in the composer’s Symphonies Nos. 2, 4, and 8 with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Maggio Musicale di Firenze, and Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, with Tilson-Thomas, Gergiev, Honeck, Inkinen, and Abbado/Mattheuz. She appeared to great acclaim in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at Carnegie Hall and on a European tour with Michael Tilson Thomas and the SFSO. She has been featured on San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas albums of Mahler’s Symphony Nos. 4and 8, the latter of which was awarded three Grammy® awards in 2009. She also recorded Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Claycomb has collaborated with renowned conductors Pierre Boulez, Patrick Summers, Richard Hickox, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Daniel Oren, Pinchas Steinberg, Paavo Järvi, and Sir Colin Davis and has originated many new productions with high-profile stage directors including Peter Sellars, Julie Taymor, Katharina Thoma, James Robinson, and David Alden. Early in her career, she earned the Silver Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the Pegasus Prize at Spoleto Festival in Italy, the Operetta Prize at the Belvedere Competition in Vienna, and first prize in the National Opera Association Competition in the U.S. She has developed a strong interest in the training and nurturing of the next generation of operatic artists and currently serves as consultant for the Bolshoi Young Artist Program, giving master classes there and at the Centre for Operatic Studies in Sulmona, Italy. A native of Texas, Ms. Claycomb resides with her husband and two children in Italy.