Having been named a Top 10 Rising Star by OperaWire after reaching the finals at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World in 2021, where she won the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize, the mezzo-soprano Claire Barnett-Jones is fast becoming one of the most sought-after voices on both the operatic stage and the concert platform. She recently made her French operatic début as Ježibaba in a new production of Rusalka at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, and her role and company débuts as Fricka (Die Walküre) at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl, in Austria, and as Madame Flora (The Medium) at Oper Frankfurt. She has sung the role of Dryad in concert performances of Ariadne auf Naxos at the Edinburgh International Festival, and made her European concert début in Schumann’s Szenen aus Goethe’s Faust, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, at the Royal Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. She made her company début at English National Opera as Eurydice, The Myth / Persephone in Birtwistle’s The Mask of Orpheus, and was a member of the company’s Harewood Artist programme from 2020 to 2022. In concert, Claire Barnett-Jones has performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at St John’s Smith Square, Handel’s Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall, participated in ‘Precipice’, a series of specially curated concerts for The Grange Festival, and given recitals at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, as part of the BBC Proms 2022, at Snape Maltings, the Ludlow English Song Weekend, and with Iain Burnside at Wigmore Hall.