Claudia Huckle

British contralto Claudia Huckle was trained partly in the U.S. and has also been active in Germany. Huckle made her debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as the Forester's Wife in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen. Huckle has appeared at major houses in Britain, the U.S., and continental Europe. She is also in demand as a concert singer, having appeared with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, and Mahler's Symphony No. 8 ("Symphony of a Thousand"). After appearances on several opera recordings, Huckle made her debut as a featured artist in 2023, joining tenor Nicky Spence and pianist Justin Brown for a recording of Mahler's original piano score of the orchestral song cycle Das Lied von der Erde.