Claire Livingstone Suggest updates
Born Lenzie.
Scottish mezzo-soprano.
Claire Livingstone studied in Glasgow at the RSAMD, appearing in student productions of The Coronation of Poppea and The Marriage of Figaro. While still a student she joined the Scottish Opera Chorus for the 1967 Edinburgh Festival staging of The Rake's Progress, and returned the following year for Peter Grimes. She won a Cinzano scholarship in 1969, and in 1972 a Sir James Caird Trust award to allow further training in Italy.
Her solo debut with Scottish Opera was as Third Lady in The Magic Flute - a role she sang many times over the years. This was followed by Mrs Herring on the 1970 tour to Iceland.
As a regular member of the company over the next few seasons, Livingstone gave a multitude of performances in over thirty roles.
Appearances with other companies included Third Lady for ENO and Grande Vestale in Spontini's La Vestale at the Wexford Festival.
Livingstone also worked extensively in Germany.
Roles in Scotland
- Third Lady in attendance on the Queen
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Zauberflöte 1970
Zauberflöte 1971
Zauberflöte 1974
Zauberflöte 1974
Zauberflöte 1983
Zauberflöte 1985
- Flosshilde a Rhinemaiden
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Götterdämmerung 1971
- Rossweisse a Valkyrie
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Valkyrie 1971
Valkyrie 1972
- Third Noble Orphan
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Rosenkavalier 1971
Rosenkavalier 2006
- Flosshilde a Rhinemaiden
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Rheingold 1971
- Hippolyta Queen of the Amazons
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1973
Midsummer Night's Dream 1976
Midsummer Night's Dream 1979
Midsummer Night's Dream 1980
Midsummer Night's Dream 1982
- Annina Violetta's maid
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Traviata 1973
Traviata 1974
Traviata 1981
- Suzuki Cio-Cio-San's servant
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Madam Butterfly 1973
Madam Butterfly 1976
Madam Butterfly 1978
Madam Butterfly 1980
- Praskowia wife of Pritschitsch
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Lustige Witwe 1973
Lustige Witwe 1974
- Fortuna Goddess of Fortune
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Incoronazione di Poppea 1973
- Israelitish Man
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Judas Maccabaeus 1973
- Arnalta Poppea's nurse
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Incoronazione di Poppea 1973
- Annina Valzacchi's accomplice
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Rosenkavalier 1974
- Alisa Ailsa, Lucy's companion
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Lucia di Lammermoor 1974
Lucia di Lammermoor 1975
Lucia di Lammermoor 1981
- Chinese Cup
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Enfant et les sortilèges 1975
- Mamzell Arvidson a fortune-teller (Ulrica)
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Masked Ball 1975
- Dragonfly La Libellule
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Enfant et les sortilèges 1975
- Dryad a nymph
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Ariadne on Naxos 1975
Ariadne on Naxos 1976
Ariadne on Naxos 1977
- Mother Maman
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Enfant et les sortilèges 1975
- Rosina Bartolo's ward
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Barbiere di Siviglia 1975
- Amelfa Dodon's nurse
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Golden Cockerel 1975
Golden Cockerel 1976
Golden Cockerel 1977
Golden Cockerel 1979
- Emilia Iago's wife and Desdemona's companion
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Otello 1975
Otello 1976
Otello 1977
- Magdalene Eva's nurse
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Mastersingers of Nuremberg 1976
Mastersingers of Nuremberg 1977
Mastersingers of Nuremberg 1978
- Meg Mistress Page
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Falstaff 1976
Falstaff 1977
- Marcellina Bartolo's housekeeper
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Nozze di Figaro 1977
- Grandmother Buryjovka owner of the mill
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Jenůfa 1977
Jenůfa 1978
Jenůfa 1989
- Aurelia Catiline's wife
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Catiline Conspiracy 1978
- Lucretia wife of Collatinus
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Rape of Lucretia 1978
- Sorceress
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Dido and Aeneas 1978
- Geneviève mother of Golaud and Pelléas
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Pelléas and Mélisande 1979
- Maddalena sister of Sparafucile
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Rigoletto 1979
Rigoletto 1980
- Madame Larina a widowed landowner
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Eugene Onegin 1979
Eugene Onegin 1980
Eugene Onegin 1981
- Auntie landlady of 'The Boar'
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Peter Grimes 1980
- Hero a Heroine who died for love
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Egisto 1982
- Alto
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Missa Solemnis 1983
- Ludmila Krušina's wife
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Bartered Bride 1985
- Mary Daland's housekeeper, once Senta's nurse
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Fliegende Holländer 1987
- Queen of the Fairies
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Iolanthe 1988
- She-Ancient Priestess of the Temple
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Midsummer Marriage 1988