Claire Barnett-Jones

In 2025/26, Barnett-Jones makes company debuts at Canada’s Calgary Opera as Witch & Gertrude in Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel conducted by Jonathan Brandani, and at the Bregenz Festival as Annina in a new Lake Stage production of Verdi’s La Traviata conducted by Kirill Karabits. Concert highlights include Mahler’s Das klagende Lied with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ryan Bancroft, Waltraute in Wagner’s Die Walküre with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome conducted by Daniel Harding, Mozart’s Requiem at London’s Barbican Centre with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Oramo Sakari, and Berg’s Altenberg Lieder and Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder in Espoo, Finland with the Tapiola Sinfonietta conducted by Ryan Bancroft. She also appears in recital at London’s Wigmore Hall with pianist Rebecca Cohen. Future plans include a return to the Royal Opera & Ballet, Covent Garden and her debut at Garsington Opera.

Highlights of the 2024/25 season included returns to Dutch National Opera as Mrs Sedley in Barbora Horáková Joly’s new production of Britten’s Peter Grimes, house debuts at the Bayerische Staatsoper as Forester’s Wife/Owl in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, and at the Royal Ballet & Opera, Covent Garden, as Waltraute in Barrie Kosky’s new production of Die Walküre conducted by Antonio Pappano. Barnett-Jones also made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra covering the role of Brangäne in performances of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Concert highlights included Elgar’s Sea Pictures with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Kristian Sallinen at St David’s Cathedral, Verdi’s Requiem with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Daniel Hyde at King’s College, Cambridge and recitals across the UK and Ireland with pianist Rebecca Cohen.

Previous opera appearances have included 2nd Norn in Wagner's Götterdämmerung and Waltraute in Die Walküre for the Bayreuther Festspiele; Jezibaba in Dvořák’s Rusalka for the Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse; Frika in Die Walküre for the Tiroler Festspiele Erl; Mescalina in Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre and Madame Flora in Menotti’s The Medium for Oper Frankfurt; Eurydice the Myth/Persephone in Birtwistle’s The Mask of Orpheus, Rossweisse/cover Fricka in The Valkyrie and Lapák in The Cunning Little Vixen for English National Opera; cover Mistress Quickly in Verdi's Falstaff and 2nd Noble Orphan in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier for Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Annina in Verdi's La Traviata for Glyndebourne Touring Opera; 3rd Lady in Mozart's The Magic Flute for Welsh National Opera and Gaea in Strauss’s Daphne for Scottish Opera.

Previous concert highlights include Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Barena/Pastuchnya in Janáček’s Jenůfa and with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Second Norn in Götterdämmerung with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski and Sosostris in Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner.

Barnett-Jones has given recitals at Snape Maltings, the Ludlow English Song Festival and London’s Wigmore Hall with pianist Iain Burnside and has toured the UK both with pianist Sholto Kynoch as part of the Oxford International Song Festival’s autumn touring season and with pianist Rebecca Cohen.

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