Claire Galloway
Soprano
About
The
Artist
British-American soprano Claire Galloway’s theatricality covers the gamut of “palpable pain” and “splendid, funny moments” (B.I.T.R.). This season she joins Opera NexGen as Fiordiligi (Lily) in Così fan tutte. Ms. Galloway joined the Ravinia Steans Music Institute as a Fellow this past summer online and will attend in person this year. She is a featured artist in Baltimore Musicales’ series.
Having performed roles such as Blanche (Dialogues of the Carmelites), Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito), Dinah (Trouble in Tahiti), Contessa (Nozze di Figaro), and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), she has also premiered roles in the new Podcast Opera Company’s Friends House by Steven Crino, Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park and Frances Pollock’s Stinney, featured in the 2019 Prototype Festival.
In 2020 Ms. Galloway was a semifinalist in the NYIOPS/Premiere Opera Vocal Competition, in 2019 in the James Toland Vocal Arts Competition, NYIOPS/Premiere Opera Vocal Competition, the Partners for the Arts Vocal Competition, and in 2018 a semifinalist in the Mildred Miller Competition and a finalist in the Saltworks Opera Competition. She has performed with Saltworks Opera, Baltimore Concert Opera, the Savannah Voice Festival, Bel Cantanti Opera, and Stillpointe Theatre.
In 2018 she worked with Baltimore Musicales to present a recital based on the life of Rosa Ponselle at the elegant George Peabody Library. Ms. Galloway is curator of the related Ponselle exhibit at the Peabody Institute, where she currently teaches. Ms. Galloway’s innovative recital programing has resulted in the best-attended concert event at the Baltimore War Memorial Arts Initiative in past seasons.
Friday, April 2nd
7:30 pm ET
Alto/Evangelist in little match girl passion
The Bradley Hills Church section leader quartet brings to life David Lang's Pullitzer Prize winning Passion, using Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.
Sunday, April 4th
10:30 am ET
Mahler's Urlicht
Ms. Galloway performs Mahler's masterwork with brass quartet and organ in Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church's Easter service.
Sunday, May 9th
6:30 pm ET
Songs My Mother Taught Me
Ms. Galloway joins Baltimore Musicales for a Mother's Day celebration, performing a Scottish folk song, Schumann's "An meinem Herzen," and Fauré's "Puisqu'ici bas tout âme"
Reviews
DC Theatre Scene
Susan Galbraith
Claire Galloway Weber as Dinah, the wife, delivered some beautiful arias. I was deeply moved by the dream she relates to her psychiatrist on the couch, in this production inventively draped as a chanteuse over the top of the piano. 'I was standing in the garden' was filled with the inner longing of this woman. I also liked the risks she took in the wild 'Trouble in Tahiti'...She rips into the song with abandon, moving from comic dismissal of movie musicals as they were written to getting caught up in the plot of one then tearing with fury into the exotic singing-dancing island girls 'ahaahhaahha' complete with phony hula dancing.
Baltimore Independent Theatre Review
Dinah, played by Claire Galloway Weber, is also an outstanding songbird soprano who holds her own against Tomaszewski. Her pain is palpable, and her courage to try and find help seems a thin veiled reflection on deflection. She has her own splendid funny moment performing 'Island Magic,' while flouncing between a disgusted movie patron and a back up dancer for the Polynesian Dance Troupe.
Theatre Bloom
Mike Zellhofer
Galloway Weber's clear, dulcet voice draws you into her struggle between having the perfect looking suburban home and what appears to be an alluring marriage, and the desire for a relationship with the man she loves. She conveys this perfectly in her scene with her psychiatrist and as she recounts her viewing of the South Sea romance Trouble in Tahiti.
Fiordiligi
Fellow
Semi-Finalist
Semi-Finalist
Blanche de la Force
Blanche de la Force
Vitellia
Suzel (cover)
Semi-Finalist
Finalist
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Ravinia Steans Music Institute
James Toland Vocal Arts Competition
Partners for the Arts Competition
Dialogues of the Carmelites (Poulenc)
Dialogues of the Carmelites (Poulenc)
La Clemenza di Tito (Mozart)
L'Amico Fritz (Mascagni)
Mildred Miller Competition
Saltworks Opera Competition
Opera NexGen
March 2021
Online
August 2020
Online
May 2020
Alexandria, VA
October 2019
Savannah Opera
August 2019
Saltworks Opera
July 2019
Lidal North - Oslo
July 2019
Baltimore Concert Opera
November 2018
Pittsburgh Festival Opera
October 2018
Cape Charles, VA
October 2018
Get In Touch
Contact
Wade Artist Management
Martha Wade
(212) 8777-6483
Claire Galloway
Baltimore, Maryland, USA