The soprano Elizabeth Claxton was born and raised in Dublin, Georgia and graduated from the Royal Academy of Music Opera course in London with the prestigious Dip RAM award. Elizabeth received her Bachelors of Music from Shorter College in Rome, Georgia with scholastic and musical honours. While at Shorter she studied with Dr. John Ramsaur, and was a member of the internationally acclaimed Shorter Chorale under the direction of Dr. John Ratledge. Elizabeth was a featured soloist with this group, performing Brahms’ Requiem both with the Académie de St. Louise en L’Isle at the prestigious L’église Madeleine in Paris, and at the Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial in Madrid with the Orquesta Académica. She also performed Orff’s Carmina Burana at Teatre Fortuny, Reus, Spain. Her most recent concert performances include a staged lieder recital with music by contemporaries of Freud entitled Dreamlives- Dark Music of Desire, Shostakovich’s Seven Poems of Alexander Blok for Piano Trio and voice Opus 127 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Elgar’s Coronation Ode, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony in Bristol Cathedral, and Verdi’s Requiem.

Elizabeth has won many prizes and scholarships, and has just recently won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Georgia and Florida District Auditions and received Honorable Mention in the Grand Finals of the Singer of the Year Competition in Shreveport, LA. She has also been selected to perform in masterclasses given by Sylvia McNair, William McGraw, Costanza Cuccaro, Robert Tear, Paul Kiesgen, and Dennis O’Neill.

Elizabeth has performed many roles both in opera and musical theatre. Recently she performed the role of Musetta in La Boheme and Adele in Die Fledermaus with St. Petersburg Opera, Gerhilde in Die Walküre with the Mastersingers, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Young London Opera’s tour to Holland, and Léna in a concert performance of La Princesse Jaune by Saint-Saëns conducted by Dominic Wheeler. Other roles include Clarice in the Royal Academy Opera’s Il Mondo della Luna by Haydn, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus with the Brevard Music Festival in Brevard, North Carolina, Fiordiligi in Shorter College’s production of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the Rome Festival in Rome, Italy, Nettie Fowler in Carousel, Mother Superior in The Sound of Music, Aldonza in Man of La Mancha, Guenevere in Camelot, and Annie at the age of 8.

Elizabeth has recently been seen entertaining at Ocean Forest, the new Cloister’s Spanish Lounge and Club Room on Sea Island, Georgia with music from Mozart to Johnny Mercer. This summer Elizabeth will be spending her summer with Opera New Jeresey in the Merry Widow and study covering Violetta in La Traviata.