Samantha Clarke

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Charlotte Bateman

Charlotte Bateman

Assistant Artist Manager

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

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About Samantha

Australian/British soprano Samantha Clarke is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and a Tait Memorial Trust Scholar.

In the 2024/25 season Samantha returns to Opera Australia as Violetta La traviata and to Pinchgut Opera as Cleopatra Giulio Cesare and she appears in concert with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra and the West Australian Symphony, and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras.

Recent highlights have included Contessa Le nozze di Figaro for Garsington Opera; Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte for Opera Queensland, the Grange Festival and in Japan for the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy; the title role in Theodora for Pinchgut Opera; Violetta for the West Australian Opera; Musetta La bohème for Opera North; the title role in the Buxton Festival’s award-winning pasticcio Georgiana; Marzelline in concert performances of Fidelio with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra/Simone Young and the title role in The Golden Cockerel for the Adelaide Festival.

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

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Season Highlights

Sep 2024 - Sep 2024
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Mahler Symphony No.8 Asher Fisch (conductor)
Oct 2024 - Oct 2024
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Mozart Requiem Umberto Clerici (conductor)
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Pinchgut Opera
Giulio Cesare (Cleopatra) Erin Helyard (conductor)

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Selected Repertoire

BeethovenSymphony No. 9
MahlerSymphony No. 2   •   Symphony No. 4

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  • Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Cleopatra)

    Pinchgut Opera
    Nov 2024 - Nov 2024

    • All hail Samantha Clarke! We have a new Cleopatra. Technically secure, acoustically gorgeous and dramatically convincing, she studied with Yvonne Kenny and has inherited the mantle from her teacher, showcasing the many facets of Cleopatra’s story, from Ptolomeo’s bossy sister in Non disperar, to smouldering goddess in V’adoro, pupille. Her lament Piangero la sorte mia is finely nuanced, silken smooth and beautifully coloured. She absolutely rocks her final aria, Da tempeste.

    • Clarke has a substantial voice with a beautiful, lyrically warm quality and an alluring stage presence – a must for this most enigmatic of historical figures.

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