Claire Mitcher read English at Cambridge where she was also a choral scholar and studied with Marion Studholme. She has been a member of the ENO Chorus since 1998 whilst raising her four children single handedly.

Previously for ENO: Wild Goose/Narrator Paul Bunyan, First and Second Flowermaiden Parsifal; Second Woman/Witch Dido and Aeneas; Bridesmaid Der Freischütz; Dunyasha The Tsar’s Bride; Crobyle Thaïs; New Ofglen The Handmaid’s Tale; First Secretary Nixon in China; Servilia La clemenza di Tito; Fifteen-year-old girl Lulu ; Coloratura soprano On the Town; Karolka/Barena Jenůfa; Barbarina/Bridesmaid The Marriage of Figaro; Trojan Woman/Cretan Idomeneo ; Jacky Kennedy/Paquette Candide; American suburban mom 1/Cynthia Two Boys; Soprano solo Turandot ; Italian woman Medea; English woman Death in Venice ; Soprano solo Thebans ; Musetta; Frasquita; First Lady The Magic Flute, Young woman The Day After, High Priestess Aida, and she stood by at a moment’s notice to sing Pamina during a run of The Magic Flute when the principal artist was suddenly taken sick.