Soprano Claron McFadden was born in the Unites States, where she studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. She made her opera debut during the 1985 Holland Festival, in a production of Hasse’s L’Eroe Cinese, was first seen at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 1990 in a controversial staging of Rameau’s Les Indes galantes directed by William Christie, and has built up an impressive career since then. McFadden performs a wide repertoire spanning early and contemporary music to jazz and cross-over projects. She has worked with leading conductors such as Kurt Masur, John Eliot Gardiner, Marc Minkowski, Neeme Järvi, Ton Koopman and Frans Brüggen, and large orchestra’s and ensembles including the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, The King’s Consort, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Arditti Quartet and the Nash Ensemble. McFadden is much in demand as an opera singer and has performed in productions of the Théâtre du Chatelet, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Salzburger Festspiele, the Bayerische Staatsoper, De Nationale Opera and Muziektheater Transparant. She sang in Claude Vivier’s Rêves d’un Marco Polo directed by Pierre Audi and in 2018 she received plaudits for her performance of the title role in the Muziektheater Transparant production Harriet. During the 2013 Holland Festival she performed in the 3D opera Sunken Garden by Michel van der Aa. McFadden has made various recordings for EMI and other companies and performed in many radio and television productions. In 2006 she was awarded the Amsterdam Prize for the Arts.