Reviews

Claire Lees portrayed the sassy but fickle Adina, her sound bright, her phrasing graceful.

Rian Evans, The Guardian, September 2019

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Adina (Claire Lees). In dungarees and a silk bandana, she makes light work of Donizetti’s rapid passages and top notes,

Amanda Holloway, The Stage, September 2019

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Lees hails from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with a vocal breadth and delivery that comes very close to stealing the show, nor is she any less proficient at acting. Country house operas are all about star-spotting and you don’t need a telescope for this one.

Rebecca Lipkin, Arbuturian, September 2019

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Claire Lees was a wonderfully sparky Oscar...........Lees was beautifully effortless in her coloratura whilst combining this with an impressive physicality.

Robert Hugill, Planet Hugill, June 2019

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Claire Lees as the ever-perky page boy combined pearly tone with sufficient

thrust to lead a big ensemble.

Yehuda Shapiro, Opera Magazine, June 2019

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Oscar was a bouncy bright-voiced Claire Lees

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David Buchler, Opera Spy, June 2019

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Claire Lees crystal clear soprano has bags of power and sparkles at the top

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Anthony Evans, Planet Hugill, October 2018

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Claire Lees captured Sister Constance’s gaiety and unpretentious spiritual vision.

Claire Seymour, Opera Today, February 2018

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Claire Lees is ideal casting as Sister Constance........getting to the core of Constance’s simple religious convictions.

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Peter Reed, Classical Source, February 2018

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Claire Lees is the discovery of the evening.....Lees has wonderful pluck and dignity, looks like a young Julianne Moore and manages all the difficult phrases, above all in Pamina's lament, to radiant perfection.......she'll make a radiant Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier and her Pamina would already grace any stage.

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David Nice, The Art's Desk, July 2016

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Claire Lees' superb Pamina is both girlish and gutsy, her soprano supple, smooth and clean in a performance which does not falter or hesitate.

Charlotte Valori, Bachtrack, July 2016

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Claire as Adina for Iford Arts 2019

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