Clara Nadeshdin, a glamorous blonde Elena, sounded dark and sensual and her scene with Faust built considerable excitement. Opera, February 2025
April 2026 saw Clara Nadeshdin’s acclaimed role debut as Christine in Strauss’ Intermezzo at Dresden’s Semperoper, where she was singing Elena in Boito’s Mefistofele in the 2024 season’s opening production. In 2027, the German soprano will make her debut as Elsa in Wagner’s Lohengrin at Opera Vlaanderen. In 2023, she made her Semperoper debut in Wagner’s Die Walküre under the baton of Christian Thielemann and has sang her first Gutrune and Third Norn in a new production of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung at Stadttheater Klagenfurt.
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. 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 covered Senta in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer at Teatro La Fenice in Venice under the baton of Markus Stenz in 2023 and sang Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at Landestheater Detmold in 2020. In 2019, she performed Ada in Wagner’s Die Feen in a version for children at Theater Osnabrück. 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, Patrick Hahn, 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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