The young French lyric soprano Claire Antoine began her career in 2023 at La Monnaie in Brussels and the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège: in Brussels she sang Lady Clarence (and covered the role of Catherine d’Aragon) in Saint-Saëns’ Henry VIII in Olivier Py’s production under the musical direction of Alain Altinoglu, while in Liège she appeared as Madame Lidoine in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites under Speranza Scappucci. In June 2024 she made her debut at the Opéra de Lille as Ida (Die Fledermaus) in a production by Laurent Pelly.
Claire Antoine studied at the Conservatoire de Toulouse and the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse in Lyon. From 2021 to 2023 she was a member of the opera studio of the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, where she appeared as First Girl in Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg and as Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and understudied Micaëla (Carmen).
In 2021 she was selected for the initiative Talents Adami Classique, and in 2023/24 she participated in the development programme Génération Opéra. In recent years she has appeared in recital at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, as part of the ‘Scène émergente’ series at the Chorégies d’Orange and at the Opéra de Limoges.
In January and February 2025 Claire Antoine sang Minerve and Attendant of Hébé in Rameau’s Castor et Pollux at the Paris Opéra in Peter Sellars’s production under the musical direction of Teodor Currentzis. Following her Salzburg Festival debut in the same roles, her 2025/26 season engagements will include the title role of Iolanta at the Opéra National de Bordeaux, Madame Lidoine at the Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine and Liù (Turandot) at the Opéra Grand Avignon. She will also appear in a performance of Massenet’s oratorio Ève at the St Wenceslaus Music Festival in Ostrava in the Czech Republic.
