Claire Rutter

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Name Claire Rutter

Education Guildhall School of Music and Drama Albums Der glorreiche Augenblick / Choral Fantasia Nominations Classic Brit Award for Album of the Year, Classic Brit Award for Ensemble/Orchestral Album of the Year Similar People Stephen Gadd, David Lloyd‑Jones, Hilary Davan Wetton, Herbert Howells, David Hill

Vissi d'Arte - Tosca - Claire Rutter

Claire Rutter sings "O, Patria Mia" from Verdi's Aida

Claire Rutter (born 1976 in South Shields) is an English operatic soprano.

Biography

Claire Rutter studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at the National Opera Studio. Her title role performances have included those in Norma and Tosca at Grange Park Opera, and in Lucrezia Borgia, La Traviata and Aida at English National Opera. Her performances in the United States include those with Dallas Opera in 2003 (as Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte) and Santa Fe Opera in 2008 (as Alice in Falstaff). Rutter has recorded extensively for Naxos and Chandos. She is married to baritone Stephen Gadd.

Selected discography

Lennox Berkeley: A Dinner Engagement - City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor). Chandos CHAN 10219

Lennox Berkeley: Ruth - City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor). Chandos CHAN 10301

Gustav Holst: The Planets / The Mystic Trumpeter Op.18 - Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Chorus, David Lloyd-Jones (conductor). Naxos 8.555776

Herbert Howells: Hymnus paradisi / Sir Patrick Spens - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, The Bach Choir, David Hill (conductor). Naxos 8.570352

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Marin Alsop (conductor). Naxos 8.570033

Rutter & Gadd: Family Album -BBC Concert Orchestra, Richard Balcombe (conductor). Spinto001.

Arthur Sullivan: The Prodigal Son / Boer War Te Deum - New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor). Hyperion CDA67423

Arthur Sullivan: The Contrabandista / The Foresters - New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor). Hyperion CDA 67486

Songs

The Mystic Trumpeter - Op 18
Omnia sol temperat
In taberna quando sumus
La Boheme: Act I - "O soave fanciulla"
Fantasia in C minor - Op 80 - "Choral Fantasy"
Hymnus Paradisi : Hymnus Paradisi: I heard a voice from heaven
La Boheme: Act I - "Si Mi chiamano Mimi"
Madama Butterfly: Act I - Prelude
Recitative and Quartet: Der den Bund im Sturme fest gehalten
Stetit puella
II Requiem aeternam
Estuans interius
Europa steht!
Veni - veni - venias
Circa mea pectora
Hymnus paradisi: II Requiem aeternam Lento - teneramente
Fortune plango vulnera
Hymnus paradisi: VI Holy is the true Light Con moto - ma assai sostenuto
Es treten hervor
The Quayside Shaver
Ego sum abbas
La Boheme: Act III - "Mimi e una civetta"
Madama Butterfly: Act II - "Un bel di vedremo"
Hymnus paradisi: V I heard a voice from heaven Lento - assai tranquillo
VI Holy is the true Light
Ave formosissima
Recitative: O seht sie nah' und naher treten!
In trutina
Floret Silva
Aria with Chorus: O Himmel - welch' Entzucken!
I Preludio
Amor volat undique

References

Claire Rutter Wikipedia

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