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author = ["authors/jenna.md"]
categories = "Interview"
date = "2017-01-09T14:09:00+00:00"
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primary_image_credit = "Photo: Simon Pauly."
publishDate = "2017-01-12T10:03:00+00:00"
related_articles = ["articles/talking-with-singers-kate-lindsey.md"]
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short_description = "A portable practice focused largely on breath, it&#039;s no wonder why opera singers are such fans of yoga. Canadian soprano Layla Claire is one of those singers who swears by yoga as part of her daily warm-up; if you&#039;ve ever heard her sing, it&#039;s clear that her warm-up routine is serving her very well."
slug = "layla-claire-soprano-yogi"
title = "Layla Claire, soprano &amp; yogi"

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A portable practice focused largely on breath, it's no wonder why opera singers are such fans of yoga. Canadian soprano [Layla Claire](/talking-with-singers-layla-claire/) is one of those singers who swears by yoga as part of her daily warm-up; if you've ever heard her sing, it's clear that her warm-up routine is serving her very well.

We wanted to share this short video profile on Claire, created by yoga-giant Lululemon. She filmed it this past summer in Salzburg, where she sang Donna Elvira in *Don Giovanni* with Ildebrando D'Arcangelo and Luca Pisaroni. She reprises Elvira in March at [Opernhaus Zürich](http://www.opernhaus.ch/en/activity/detail/don-giovanni-11-03-2017-18634/), before singing the Countess in Opera Philadelphia's [*Le nozze di Figaro*.](https://www.operaphila.org/whats-on/)

The rehearsal clips in the video are from *La finta giardiniera* at Festival D'Aix-en-Provence, 2012, with baritone John Chest. 
