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 joined Opera NexGen as Fiordiligi (Lily) in Così fan tutte. Ms. Galloway is a Fellow at the Ravinia Steans Music Institute.
Having performed roles such as Blanche (Dialogues of the Carmelites), Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito), Dinah (Trouble in Tahiti), Contessa (Le 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 both 2019 and 2020 Ms. Galloway was a semifinalist in the NYIOPS/Premiere Opera Vocal Competition and the James Toland Vocal Arts Competition, in 2019 the Partners for the Arts Vocal Competition, and in 2018 the Mildred Miller Competition as well as 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.
She is a featured artist in Baltimore Musicales’ series. In 2018 she worked with the company 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.
Sunday, June 20th
2 pm ET
Fathers' Day Concert
Ms. Galloway performs favorites with pianist Andrew Stewart for a private concert at Brightview Senior Living in Bel Air, MD
Presented by Bach in Baltimore.
July - August, 2021
Ravinia Steans Music Institute
Ms. Galloway will join the Ravinia Festival as a Fellow - presenting two concerts of art song repertoire.
Sunday, February 6th, 2022
Bach's B Minor Mass
Ms. Galloway joins Bach in Baltimore to sing Soprano II and Alto in Bach's magnificent work. Rescheduled from May 2020.
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
with Stillpointe Theatre, 2018 PC: Rob Clatterbuck
PC: CGloWs Photography 2017
with Bel Cantanti Opera, 2017 PC: Alex Souvorov
Lidal North, Oslo 2016
St. David's Episcopal Music Series, 2016
Bel Cantanti Opera, 2015 PC: Alex Souvorov
Get In Touch
Contact
Wade Artist Management
Martha Wade
(212) 8777-6483
Claire Galloway
Baltimore, Maryland, USA