Samantha Clarke

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

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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 2024/25 season Samantha returns to Opera Australia as Violetta La traviata and to Pinchgut Opera as Cleopatra Giulio Cesare and she appears in concert with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra and the West Australian Symphony, and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras.

Recent highlights have included Contessa Le nozze di Figaro for Garsington Opera; Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte for Opera Queensland, the Grange Festival and in Japan for the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy; the title role in Theodora for Pinchgut Opera; Violetta for the West Australian Opera; 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.

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Season Highlights

Sep 2024 - Sep 2024
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Mahler Symphony No.8 Asher Fisch (conductor)
Oct 2024 - Oct 2024
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Mozart Requiem Umberto Clerici (conductor)
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Pinchgut Opera
Giulio Cesare (Cleopatra) Erin Helyard (conductor)

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Selected Repertoire

BeethovenSymphony No. 9
MahlerSymphony No. 2   •   Symphony No. 4

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  • La traviata (Violetta)

    Opera Australia
    Jan 2025

    • Much of that achievement is attributable to Samantha Clarke’s remarkable performance as Violetta, the ‘fallen woman’ of the title. The UK-trained Aussie’s substantial voice and fluid grace were a match for the emotional demands on her acting – from soul-searching introspection to passionate joy; to the tears engendered by her duet with Germont, to her quietly dying assertion that she’d become an angel in heaven.

    • Samantha Clarke returns from the 2024 season of La Traviata as Violetta, every bit as impressive as she was when we reviewed the show last year. Clarke takes full advantage of the way the show centres her character with a remarkable performance on both the vocal and physical fronts. With her remarkable soprano voice at the forefront of the show, the tragedy of Violetta is both seen and felt every moment she’s on-stage, made all the more bittersweet by her single moment of happiness.

    • And, with the indomitable soprano Samantha Clarke singing Violetta, this season is sure to succeed. Clarke is magic on stage – her energy, her vocal control and her dramatic command hold audiences captive.

    • Samantha Clarke as Violetta already a year ago on the same stage proved to be utterly convincing with the sheer elegance of her vocal skills and her presentation of this role added further depths in its extremes. While her reply to Alfredo’s Brindisi was still coquettish, all shallow feelings were replaced by self-doubt and the morsels of burgeoning love in the following scene, “E strano.” [...] On the other end of the emotional scale, accepting Germont’s demands and wishing his unknown daughter a happy life in Act two’s “Dite alla giovine” was a clear gesture of a heartbreaking sacrifice. One could imagine a different characterization of Violetta, but hardly a better one.

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