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.). In 2018 Ms. Galloway was a semifinalist in the Mildred Miller Competition and a finalist in the Saltworks Opera Competition. She joined Saltworks to sing Blanche in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites this Summer. She also portrayed Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito) in Oslo and reprised her role in Dialogues under the direction of Fabrizio Melano in the Savannah Voice Festival. Having performed well-known roles such as Dinah (Trouble in Tahiti), Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro), and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), she has also premiered roles in Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park and Frances Pollock’s Stinney, featured in the 2019 Prototype Festival.
In past seasons, Ms. Galloway has performed with Baltimore Concert Opera, the Savannah Voice Festival, Bel Cantanti Opera, and Stillpointe Theatre.
Last season she joined 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.
An avid recitalist, she also recently sang with baritone Rob McGinness and presented two concerts with pianist John Henderson showcasing Scandinavian and contemporary American compositions. Ms. Galloway’s innovative recital programing has resulted in the best attended concert event at the Baltimore War Memorial Arts Initiative in past seasons.
A frequent soloist with Concert Artists of Baltimore, Ms. Galloway has also performed concert and oratorio works with Bach in Baltimore, the American Symphony Orchestra, and the Peabody Concert Orchestra.
Dec 13, 2019
Folger Consort
Gloria: A Baroque Italian Christmas
Ms. Galloway joins the renowned Folger Consort to sing in the SSAA arrangement of Vivaldi's Gloria.
The program also includes Scarlatti's Christmas Cantata and Corelli's Christmas Concerto.
Performances:
Friday, December 13, 2019 at 8 pm
Saturday, December 14, 2019 at 4 pm and 8 pm
Sunday, December 15, 2019 at 2 pm
Monday, December 16, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at 7:30 pm
St. Mark's Church: 301 A Street SE, Washington, DC
Jan 24, 2020
7:30 pm
Schubert Mass in G Major
Ms. Galloway joins the Fairfax High School in their Masterworks Concert as the soprano soloist in Schubert's Mass in G Major.
She will be joined by tenor soloist Min Jin and baritone soloist Jason Widney and choir director Juliana Woodill.
Truro Anglican Church, 10520 Main Street, Fairfax, VA 22030
May 03, 2020
4:00 pm
Bach's Mass in B Minor
T. Herbert Dimmock leads the Bach in Baltimore concert choir & and orchestra in Bach's B Minor Mass with:
Claire Galloway, Soprano II
Katherine Vetter Cain, Soprano I
Jeffrey Fahnestock, Tenor
William Marshall, Bass
Sunday, May 3rd, 2020 at 4 pm
Towson United Methodist Church
501 Hampton Lane, Towson, MD 21286
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.
Semi-Finalist
Semi-Finalist
Blanche de la Force
Blanche de la Force
Vitellia
Suzel (cover)
Semi-Finalist
Finalist
Widow Scene &
Kaddisch
Mimí (scenes)
Dinah
Vermont Vocal 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
Elijah (Mendelssohn)
Deux Mélodies Hébraïques (Ravel)
La Bohème (Puccini)
Trouble in Tahiti (Bernstein)
Barn Opera
November 2019
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
Savannah Voice Festival, GA
August 2018
Opera as Drama, NY
March 2018
Stillpointe Theatre, MD
January 2018
Get In Touch
Contact
Wade Artist Management
Martha Wade
(212) 8777-6483
Claire Galloway
Baltimore, Maryland, USA