Allan Clayton MBE | |
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Personal details | |
Alma mater |
St John's College, Cambridge Royal Academy of Music |
Occupation | Opera singer |
Allan James Clayton MBE (born 1981) is a British tenor singer. [1]
Clayton studied at the King's School, Worcester as a chorister at Worcester Cathedral, [1] at St John's College, Cambridge as a choral scholar, and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. [2] He was a BBC New Generation Artist from 2007-09 [3] and winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Singer Award in 2018. [4]
Clayton was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to opera. [5]
In 2022, he starred in a Royal Opera House production of Peter Grimes which was hailed as one of the finest opera productions in the UK for decades. The Guardian said "Clayton makes a heartbreaking, supremely lyrical Grimes, singing with remarkable sensitivity and great refinement of tone" [6] and the FT described him as "vocally outstanding in the role, powerful, sensitive and dealing with its idiosyncratic vocal challenges as if they are no problem at all". [7]