Clara Nadeshdin, a glamorous blonde Elena, sounded dark and sensual and her scene with Faust built considerable excitement. Opera, February 2025
In 2024, Clara Nadeshdin was part of Dresden’s Semperoper season’s opening production, singing Elena in Boito’s Mefistofele. April 2026 sees her role debut as Christine in Strauss’ Intermezzo in Dresden. In 2023, the German soprano made her Semperoper debut in Wagner’s Die Walküre under the baton of Christian Thielemann and has sung her first Gutrune and Third Norn in a new production of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung at Stadttheater Klagenfurt. In 2023, she covered Senta in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer at Teatro La Fenice in Venice under the baton of Markus Stenz.
From the 2023/24 season, Clara Nadeshdin is a member of Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden, where her repertoire includes Micaela in Bizet’s Carmen, Natascha in Furrer’s Violetter Schnee. During the 2025/26 season, she will sing her first Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Giulietta in a new production of Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann and Gutrune in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung. She has worked with directors including Robert Carsen, Eva-Maria Höckmayr, Barbora Horáková, Marcin Lakomicki, Kornél Mundruczó, Wolfgang Nägele, Aron Stiehl, Karen Stone, Dmitri Tcherniakov.
Clara Nadeshdin has sung Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at Landestheater Detmold in December 2020 – the premiere was cancelled due to Covid-19 after the dress reheasal, as was Reimann’s Lear at Staatsoper Hannover in 2021, in which she was to have sung Regan. In 2019, the soprano performed Ada in Wagner’s Die Feen in a version for children at Theater Osnabrück. At Hanover Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien, the soprano has sung the title role in Martinů’s Julietta in 2020 and Primadonna in the Prologue of Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos in 2019. At Staatsoper Hannover she performed Erste Dame in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and First Soprano in Martin’s Le Vin herbé between 2019 and 2021.
As a concert soloist, Clara Nadeshdin has performed Bliss‘ Madam Noy in a concert series commemorating the end of World War I in Hanover in 2018. She is also a dedicated recitalist and gave a recital together with colleagues at Staatsoper Unter den Linden in September 2022. She was accompanied by Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and Staatskapelle Berlin and performed under the baton of conductors including Andrea Battistoni, Cameron Burns, Thomas Guggeis, Axel Kober, Nicholas Milton, Matthias Pintscher, Lutz Rademacher, Simon Rattle, Valtteri Rauhalammi, Ivan Repušić, Alexander Soddy, Markus Stenz, Eduardo Strausser, Christian Thielemann, Robin Ticciati, Valentin Uryupin, Simone Young, Stephan Zilias.
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