“Charlie Clapperton’s Alexandra Feodorovna was often spellbinding, and sensuously warm of tone, and yet this was also a performance that was rooted in the deepest despair too.”
Mezzo-soprano, Charlotte Clapperton is a member of the Royal Academy Opera studying with Mary Nelson and Iain Ledingham. She is the grateful recipient of the Derek Butler Award.
She was awarded both first prize and song prize at the prestigious 2025 Richard Lewis-Jean Shanks Award.
With RAO, Charlotte has performed Der Sandmann in Hänsel und Gretel, Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte and Courtier in The Burning Fiery Furnace. She greatly looks forward to playing the title role in the upcoming RAO production of Carmen.
With the Royal College of Music Charlotte peformed numerous roles including Public Opinion in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld.
She recently covered the roles of La Merè/The Queen in the Royal Opera House production of Larmes de Couteau/Full Moon in March.
Charlotte has frequently performed in oratorio works as an alto soloist including Mozart Requiem, Vivaldi Gloria, Mendelssohn Elijah and Bach Christmas Oratorio.
Charlotte graduated from the Royal College of Music with a Distinction MPerf, studying with Dinah Harris, and holds a first class BMus Hons from the Royal Academy of Music having studied with Catherine Wyn-Rogers.
“...her clean tone and bright sound convey Tom’s quick wit with directness.”