Claron McFadden

Soprano Claron McFadden trained at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester (New York). Her first appearance at Glyndebourne was in the title role of Alban Berg’s Lulu under Sir Andrew Davis. She has sung the title-role in Handel’s Rodelinda under Trevor Pinnock in Karlsruhe and Semele in Halle, and she has appeared throughout Europe with Les Arts Florissants. As well as performing soprano solos in the major oratorios, Claron McFadden is also a sought-after interpreter of contemporary music, especially the works of Dirk Brossé and Harrison Birtwistle. She sang the Lulu Suite with the Residentie Orchestra under Oliver Knussen as well as solos in Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14 and Britten’s Les Illuminations in the Concertgebouw. Her numerous CD recordings include Birtwistle’s Paul Celan Songs, Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras, Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes and Purcell’s King Arthur with William Christie, Handel’s Acis and Galatea and Ottone, and a new recording of Alexander Balus with The King’s Consort.