Samantha Clarke
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Representation
About Samantha
Australian/British soprano Samantha Clarke is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and a Tait Memorial Trust Scholar
In the 2023/24 season Samantha makes debuts with Opera Australia as Violetta (La traviata), Pinchgut Opera in the title role of Theodora, with Garsington Opera as Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro) and with the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy as Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte).
In concert, she tours the USA and Canada in a Bach and Handel programme with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, sings Woglinde in concert performances of Das Rheingold with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra/Simone Young, performs a programme of Baroque arias with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra/Erin Helyard and appears at London's Wigmore Hall with The Mozartists/Ian Page.
Recent highlights have included Violetta for the West Australian Opera; Fiordiligi for Opera Queensland and the Grange Festival; Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) for the Grange Festival; Musetta (La bohème) for Opera North; the title role in the Buxton Festival’s award-winning pasticcio Georgiana; Marzelline in concert performances of Fidelio with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra/Simone Young and the title role in The Golden Cockerel for the Adelaide Festival.
Representation
Season Highlights
Video
With darkness deep as is my woe - Handel- Theodora
Accompanied by David Wickham Credit: NA
PlayingQuando m'en vo - Puccini - La boheme
Guildhall Gold Medal 2019, Barbican Hall Conductor: Richard Farnes Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Credit: Guildhall Gold Medal
PlayingCome scoglio - Mozart - Cosi fan tutte
Guildhall Gold Medal - 2019 Barbican Hall Conductor: Richard Farnes with the GSMD Symphony Orchestra Credit: Guildhall Gold Medal
Playing
Photos
Selected Repertoire
Beethoven | Symphony No. 9 |
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Mahler | Symphony No. 2 • Symphony No. 4 |
Press
Le nozze di Figaro (Countess)
GarsingtonMay 2024 - Jul 2024Samantha Clarke is undoubtedly the star of the show as the Countess, with the impressive dignity and control of her singing, especially in ‘Dove sono’
- Curtis Rogers , Seen and Heard International
- 03 June 2024
Clarke, definitely a name to watch out for, beautifully captures the majesty of a dignified, desolate figure, taking us with her as she moves from despair to resolution. Her presence on stage is aided by magnificent outfits (design by Robert Perdziola), from a sweeping pink dressing gown in Act 2, to a shimmering deep red shot silk dress in Act 3, to a sumptuous red and gold evening dress in her dramatic appearance in the midnight garden scene at the end of the opera.
- Charles Hebbert, Culture Whisper
- 03 June 2024
As the Countess, Samantha Clarke sang a drop-dead gorgeous 'Porgi amor', accompanied by birdsong and warbling clarinets, while 'Dove sono' was no less beautiful, taken at a flowing pace with a seamless legato. She was alert in her recits too, ensuring lines like 'I’m not that girl any more!' really hit home.
- Mark Pullinger, Gramophone
- 03 June 2024
Samantha Clarke as Countess Almaviva is wonderful. Her graceful soaring voice sails through the Countess’ showpiece arias. Clarke’s volume control is artful. Before the crescendos in her Act III aria “Dove sono”, Clarke would diminuendo slightly before surging upwards with full force. This adds a vast dynamic range and each one hits like thunder.
- Andrew Lohmann, London Unattached
- 12 June 2024