Claudia Huckle Contralto

Biography

Anglo-German contralto Claudia Huckle has won the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions. She is the first woman to receive Operalia's Birgit Nilsson Award for singing Wagner. In recent seasons, she made her debut at Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper as the Innkeeper (Boris Godunov). She has sung Galatea (Aci, Galatea e Polifemo) at the London Handel Festival, Meg Page (Falstaff) at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Suzuki (Madame Butterfly) at the Bregenz Festival, Zurich Opera and Glyndebourne On Tour. She sang Erda / Flosshilde (L'Or du Rhin) at the Bregenz Festival and Erda for Leipzig Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève and Opera North. She made her debut at La Scala in Milan as the omniscient Mussel (Strauss's Helen of Egypt).

Other roles she has sung on stage include the title role in The Rape of Lucretia and Hippolytus (A Midsummer Night's Dream) for Glyndebourne On Tour and the Glyndebourne Festival respectively, the Première Norne / Flosshilde in the Ring at Madrid's Teatro Real, Hänsel (Hänsel and Gretel) for Garsington Opera and Leipzig Opera, Olga (Eugene Onegin) for English National Opera and Welsch National Opera, Irene (Tamerlano) and Smeton (Anna Bolena) for Washington National Opera.

At London's Royal Opera House, she has sung the Third Lady (The Magic Flute), Schwertleite / First Norse (the Ring) and Merope (Oedipus). In the 2024-2025 season, Claudia Huckle makes her Grange Festival debut as Prince Orlofsky (The Bat). In concert, she makes her debut at Canada's National Arts Centre in Handel's Messiah and appears with the Stuttgart Ballet in Le Chant de la Terre.

At the Opéra national de Paris: Le Crépuscule des dieux (Flosshilde), 2020; L'Or du Rhin (Flosshilde), 2020; Parsifal (Zaubermädchen, Eine Altsimme aus der Höhe), 2022

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