Tutor information
Claire Lucas
Claire-Louise Lucas is a professional mezzo-soprano and a part-time music tutor. She lectures on opera and song for Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. She has lectured on singing in conservatoires and other universities in the UK and the USA.
Claire-Louise has performed extensively throughout Britain, Europe and the USA, including an appearance as a soloist in the Salzburg Easter Festival with Maurizio Pollini and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Claudio Abbado. Other recent performances include concerts at Gloucester Cathedral; Christ Church Cathedral; Salisbury Cathedral; Southampton University; the Leominster Festival and the Brighton Festival.
Courses
A journey through operatic history, pausing at ten important turning points on the way, starting at the birth of opera in Italy around 1600 and ending in 'fin-de-siècle' Paris at the turn of the 20th century.
For anyone with a passion for learning to sing. We will discuss and practise the fundamentals of vocal technique and interpretation, enabling you to produce a well-supported and stable vocal tone.
A practical course for singers who have attended Learn to Sing I or have other singing experience. Singing technique will be discussed and repertoire explored but the course will focus on workshop sessions, working on interpretation and vocal technique.
This course will start with Verdi's first great success, Nabucco, and then chart his development through the lyrical triumphs of his middle period, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and La Traviata, to the great Shakespearean masterpieces of his final years.
Starting with the birth of Italian opera around 1600, this course charts its development through the masterpieces of Monteverdi, Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi and Puccini.
This course is designed for anyone who would like to sing, but feels that they can't. Through a mixture of seminars and workshops, consideration will be given to various common vocal problems and their solutions.
Baroque music, with its combination of expressiveness and virtuosity, is immensely popular - but not always well understood. This course aims to provide insight into the work of, among others, Corelli, Vivaldi, Bach and Handel.