Danish soprano Clara Cecilie Thomsen studiet at the Royal Danish Opera Academy, following her studies there with Susanna Eken. Her musical foundations were laid in the Copenhagen Girls’ Choir, after which she enrolled as an undergraduate at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen.
Clara had her Royal Danish Opera debut in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (Barbarina) in 2017. In 2018 she sang the title role in the Opera Academy’s production of Handel’s Alcina at the Copenhagen Opera House. At the Festival of Lyric Arts at Aix en Provence, Clara participated in the Festival Academy’s Mozart Residency, a renowned course for the cultivation of Mozart interpretation.
In 2017 Clara made her debut as a soloist in a major orchestral concert series, taking the solo part in Carl Nielsen’s Sinfonia Espansiva with the Tonkünstler Orchestra at the world famous Musikverein in Vienna. She has appeared as a soloist in Bach’s St Matthew Passion, Mozart’s Requiem and in Handel's Messiah.
Clara has worked with some of the leading figures on the northern European music and opera scenes. She has appeared under conductors including Michael Schønwandt, Michael Boder, and has worked with stage directors Elisa Kragerup, Jacopo Spirei, and Christian von Götz among others.