Clara Nadeshdin … stood out thanks to … an imposing yet agile soprano… bachtrack, 27 June 2023
Clara Nadeshdin made her Semperoper debut in Wagner’s Walküre under the baton of Christian Thielemann in 2023 and rehearsed in a Wagner opera at Teatro La Fenice in Venice under the baton of Markus Stenz later that year. In September 2023 she has sung 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 she will sing Natascha in Furrer’s Violetter Schnee as well as in a new production of Dvořák’s Rusalka. From 2021 until 2023, she was a member of the International Opera Studio and performed many roles including Erste Dame in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte as well as Gerhilde in a new production of Wagner’s Walküre under the baton of Christian Thielemann, which was also released on Arte.tv.
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. She has worked with directors such as Barbora Horáková, Marcin Lakomicki, Wolfgang Nägele, Aron Stiehl, Karen Stone, Dmitri Tcherniakov.
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 Cameron Burns, Thomas Guggeis, Nicholas Milton, Valtteri Rauhalammi, Ivan Repušić, Markus Stenz, Eduardo Strausser, Christian Thielemann, Simone Young, Stephan Zilias.
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