Clare Presland trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She was a Chilcott Award winner. Highlights include Pia in the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Festen at the Royal Opera House, Queen of Hearts Alice's Adventures Under Ground for The Royal Opera and Irish National Opera, Aksinya/Female Convict Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk for Opéra National de Lyon and Staatsoper Hamburg and Auntie Peter Grimes, Mrs Lovett Sweeney Todd for West Green House Opera, Susanna in Il segreto di Susanna for Opera Holland Park, Hermia A Midsummer Night's Dream for English National Opera, Aldeburgh Festival and Hyogo Performing Arts Center, Japan, Hippolyta A Midsummer Night's Dream Lille Opera, the world premiere of Dani Howard's Yellow Wallpaper at the Copenhagen Festival (also Sadlers Wells and Opera Nova Festival, Prague), her BBC Proms debut in Ligeti's Requiem with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, her Wigmore Hall debut in the world premiere of Goehr's Combat of Joseph de la Reina and the Devil with the Nash Ensemble and Francis Potts' A Song on the End of the World with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Three Choirs Festival. Her 2024/25 Season engagements include her Teatro dell'Opera di Roma debut as Mrs Sedley in Peter Grimes, Page Salome for Staatsoper Hamburg, Hypolyta Midsummer Nights Dream Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, and a return to the Wigmore Hall.