Clara Barbier Serrano

French soprano Clara Barbier Serrano is studying at the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio with Alison Wells. She is the first recipient of the Andrea Bocelli Foundation – Community Jameel Scholarship. 

While completing a Bachelors degree at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig, Clara developed a rich and diversified Lied and concert repertoire, and sang with the Ensemble 1684, the Staatskapelle Halle, and pianists Eric Schneider and Alexander Schmalcz. She gave recitals at the Schumannhaus Leipzig, Amsterdam Opera Foyer and the Peter de Grote Festival.

At the Leipzig Opera, she sang the roles of the 1. Knabe (Zauberflöte) and Taumännchen (Hänsel und Gretel), and as part of the Verbier Festival Academy in 2019 was Papagena under the baton of Stanislav Kochanovsky. Clara shared the stage with Andrea Bocelli for several events since 2020, including performances at the Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro del Silenzio, Sferisterio in Macerata. At the RCM Opera studio, she sang the title role of Händel’s Rodelinda, Queen of the Night (Magic Flute), Dew Fairy in Hänsel and Gretel and is looking forward to being Controller in Jonathan Dove’s Flight in the Summer 2022.