Award-winning soprano Clara Orif is currently a member of the Académie Musicale Philippe Jaroussky (Paris). She is an alumni of Royal Academy of Music Opera  (London) and was an Oxford Song Emerging Artist.  She recently made her debut at Paris’ prestigious Opera Garnier in its production of Rameau’s Castor and Pollux, where she had the privilege of working with Teodor Currentzis, Peter Sellars and Vitaly Polonsky. Clara performed in Castor and Pollux at the 2025 Salzburg Festival. Other stage performances include the role of Ginevra in the Royal Academy’s 2023 production of Handel’s Ariodante, Fanny in Rossini’s La cambiale di martrimonio, Barbarina in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and Iphis in Haendel’s Jephtha. Born in Paris into a French-Scottish family, she is currently based in Paris. Clara is the laureate of numerous awards: a semi finalist in the 2023 Marmande International Song Competition in France and runner-up in the 2023 Pavarotti Prize Competition, winner of the Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award and Isabel Jay prize.

Award-winning soprano Clara Orif is currently a member of the Académie Musicale Philippe Jaroussky (Paris). She is an alumni of Royal Academy of Music Opera  (London) and was an Oxford Song Emerging Artist.  She recently made her debut at Paris’ prestigious Opera Garnier in its production of Rameau’s Castor and Pollux, where she had the privilege of working with Teodor Currentzis, Peter Sellars and Vitaly Polonsky. Clara performed in Castor and Pollux at the 2025 Salzburg Festival.

Other stage performances include the role of Ginevra in the Royal Academy’s 2023 production of Handel’s Ariodante, Fanny in Rossini’s La cambiale di martrimonio, Barbarina in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and Iphis in Haendel’s Jephtha.

Born into a French-Scottish family, she is currently based in Paris. Clara Orif started out her singing career at a very early age at the renowned Maîtrise de Radio France, under the direction of Sofi Jeannin. Alongside her vocal studies, she successfully trained as an organist at the Conservatoire Régional de Paris (CRR). After graduating in Musicology from La Sorbonne in Paris, she joined the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying with Mary Nelson, James Baillieu and Jonathan Papp, to complete a Master’s degree in Voice (2022).

Clara is the laureate of numerous awards: she was a semifinalist in the 2023 Marmande International Singing Competition and the runner-up in the prestigious Pavarotti Prize Competition. Clara is also a winner of the Richard Lewis / Jean Shanks Award and the Isabel Jay prize (2022). For several years, she was generously supported by the London Women’s Clinic Foundation.

Clara Orif’s engagements include the roles of Adina, Marie, and Armida, and was Iphis in Haendel’s Jephtha at the 2023 Petersfield Festival. After playing Barbarina in the Royal Academy’s production of The Marriage of Figaro, Clara took up the leading role of Fanny in its production of Rossini’s La Cambiale di Matrimonio and played the title role in its 2023 production of Handel’s Ariodante. Clara has been working with English Touring Opera and collaborating as a solist since 2020 with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Chorus in their productions of Fauré’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana and Haydn’s Nelson Mass.