ABOUT
Welsh soprano Clara Greening is recognised for her expressive artistry, with her singing described by the Western Telegraph as “beautifully rendered.” Clara is currently with The David Seligman Opera School at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama for the 2025/26 year as a Leverhulme Arts Scholar, studying under soprano Gail Pearson. She is supported by the Sybil Tutton Opera Award, the Karl Daymond Opera Award, and the Eileen Price McWilliam Award. Clara studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama for six years, completing both her undergraduate degree and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance, which she passed with distinction.
A regular on the competition platform, Clara won the 2025 Dorothy Davies’ Ingram Prize, the 2025 Dorothy Watkins Prize, the 2024 Eileen Price Prize for Lieder Singing, and the 2022 Orpheus Voice Prize. As well as being finalist for the Janet Price Prize 2025, and runner up for Llais Llwyfan Llanbed 2024.
Recent concert engagements have included: Welsh National Anthem Soloist for The Coral Welsh Grand National, Soloist with Sir Bryn Terfel in Pan Ddaw’r Nos, and soloist with the National Youth Brass Band of Wales under Erik Janssen.
Clara currently is preparing the Operatic Role of Euridice for The David Seligman Opera School’s Spring production of Offenbach’s ‘Orpheus in the Underworld’.
Passionate about supporting communities through music, Clara performs with Male Voice Choir’s and community choirs raising funds for charities such as Tenovus, Prostate Cymru, LATCH, Help Musicians, and ForgetMeNot at Velindre Cancer and Parkinson’s UK.
Alongside her performing career, Clara works as a peripatetic singing teacher, a choir leader for Only Boys Aloud and Only Voices Aloud, as well as volunteers at the Good Vibrations Parkinson’s Chorus.
Past operatic roles include Tonina (Prima la musica, poi le parole), Moth (cover) in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Little Cupid in Venus and Adonis, Dew Fairy (cover) in Hänsel und Gretel with May Street Opera, and Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel (Schools Edition) with Farncombe Opera Company. Further roles in scenes include Frau Fluth (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor), Lakmé (Lakmé), Frasquita (Carmen), Bronwen (Blaze of Glory!) , Alice (Falstaff), Agarthe (Freischütz), Miles (The Turn of the Screw), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Jenny (The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny), and Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro).