Clara Guillon

Clara Guillon first studied piano before studying opera singing, and graduated in 2016 from the Paris CRR. She won the First Woman Prize at the 2018 Marmande International Competition. She was member of the Academy of Aix en Provence Festival in 2021.

She made her stage debut in the Mozart repertoire: Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Despina (Così fan tutte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and Ilia (Idomeneo) and was Frasquita (Carmen), Giannetta (L’elisir d’amore).

A member of the Opéra national du Rhin Studio from 2019 to 2021, she sang roles such as L'Amie (Marlène Baleine), Oberto (Alcina). She was Susanna (Les Noces, variations)  in March 2020 in Lille, Rosina (The Barber of Seville) in Marmande, Giannetta (L'elisir d’amore: beau comme un camion !) at the Chorégies d'Orange.

Recently she performed Il Genio and Auralba (Le Amazzoni nell’isole Fortunate by Pallavicino) with Les Talens Lyriques in Potsdam, Pamina (The Magic Flute) in Corsican at Théâtre de Bastia, Nannetta (Falstaff) at Opéra de Lille, in Luxembourg and Caen, the First Nymph (Rusalka) at Opéra de Nice.

Future projects include Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos) in Rouen, Fiammetta (Les Brigands) at the Paris Opera, Jungfrau (Paradise and the Peri) at the Scène Musicale and Musikverein in Vienna.

Languages spoken: French, English, Italian, German

 

Photo credit: Capucine de Chocqueuse