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Deemed a 'major young artist with the potential to make an international impact,’ Clare Presland is a Chilcott Award winner. Most recent and future engagements include HERMIA *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* English National Opera and Aldeburgh Festival, VARVARA *Káťa Kabanová* Opera Holland Park, KOMPONIST *Ariadne auf Naxos* Longborough Festival, RED QUEEN Gerald Barry’s *Alice’s Adventures Under Ground* RTE Concert Orchestra, New Music Dublin, FENENA *Nabucco* Chelsea Opera Group, Cadogen Hall, *La Traviata* Théatre des Champs Elysées, as well as joining Royal Opera House, Covent Garden for *Written on Skin*.

Recent performances include AKSINYA *Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk* Opera de Lyon, PATIENT 2 Venables’ *4.48 Psychosis* (world premiere) Royal Opera House, Covent Garden at the Lyric Hammersmith, CHRISTINA *Eichberg’s Glare* (world premiere) Linbury Studio Theatre at The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, HERMIA *A Midsummer Night’s* Dream Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Japan, KITCHEN BOY *Rusalka* Scottish Opera, REALTOR Tansy Davies’ *Between Worlds* (world premiere) English National Opera at The Barbican, *Carmen* (title role) Nevill Holt Opera MARGRET (cover MARIE) *Wozzeck*, WARDROBE MISTRESS/SCHOOLBOY/PAGE *Lulu*, PALESTINIAN WOMAN *The Death of Klinghoffer*, SONYETKA *Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk*, FLORA *La Traviata*, MERCEDES *Carmen*, WOWKLE *La fanciulla del West*, SECOND LADY *The Magic Flute*, SECOND GENTLEMAN *Julietta* and *Carmen* (cover) English National Opera, MISS JESSEL *The Turn of the Screw* Nevill Holt Opera, MUSETTA *La Bohème*, ROSINA *The Barber of Seville* and SUZUKI *Madama Butterfly* Opera UpClose, JENNY *Threepenny Opera* People’s Theatre and Aloha Theatre, Hawaii, THE GIRL in Orlando Gough’s *Road Rage* Garsington Opera, and Poulenc’s *Les Mamelles de Tirésias* with Malcolm Martineau and Roger Vignoles Aldeburgh Festival.

Recent concert engagements include Beethoven’s 9th Symphony Al Bustan Festival, A Night at the Opera LSO St Luke’s, Canteloube’s *Songs of the Auvergne* Norfolk Symphony Orchestra, Mozart *Requiem* The Ten Tors Orchestra and Rossini’s Stabat Mater English Symphony Orchestra (conductor Adrian Partington) Bristol’s Colston Hall.

Clare trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and was also a Britten Pears Young Artist. She continues to study with Robert Dean.
