Performer Profile
Alan Clayton
Allan Clayton was a chorister at Worcester Cathedral before going up to St John’s College, Cambridge on a choral scholarship, and then postgraduate studies on the opera course at the Royal Academy of Music where he was awarded an inaugural Sir Elton John Scholarship and a John Lewis Award. He was also awarded a Maidment Scholarship, administered by the Musicians Benevolent Fund; a Star Award from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, and ‘The Queen's Commendation for Excellence 2007’.
Allan was a member of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme between 2007-2009, was awarded a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2008, and the John Christie Award after his highly successful debut in the title role of Albert Herring at the 2008 Glyndebourne Festival. He was also nominated for both the 2009 RPS Young Artist award and the 2009 South Bank Show Breakthrough Award.
On stage, Allan’s roles have included Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail); Lampwick in Jonathan Dove’s opera Pinocchio for Opera North; the title role Albert Herring for Opera Comique in Paris, the Glyndebourne Festival and the Britten Pears School; the title role Peter Grimes; Tamino (The Magic Flute); Prologue/Quint (Turn of the Screw); Belfiore (La finta giardiniera); the Madwoman (Britten’s Curlew River); Tenor Actor in Weir’s A Night at the Chinese Opera; the title role in Rameau’s Dardanus; Count Vandemont in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and the Male Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia), as well as appearances in Purcell’s King Arthur in France and Death in Venice at the Festival Hall.
Highlights for the 09/10 season include Berlioz’s Beatrice et Benedict for the Opera Comique in Paris, his debut with the London Symphony Orchestra in London on 3rd December 2009 singing Cassio in a concert performance of Verdi’s Otello, and Cosi fan tutte for the Glyndebourne Festival
