…Claire Pegram is a versatile artist and performer with a commitment to expressive story-telling.
Ms. Pegram is recognized as a rising talent on opera and concert stages, alike. Most recently, Pegram made her LA Opera Connects debut as Minnie in The Prospector in February 2026. Other recent debuts include her Guild Opera debut in June 2025 for an evening of operatic arias and art songs, her Los Angeles Opera debut as First Handmaiden in the company's May/June 2024 production of Puccini's Turandot, the Foreign Princess in Rusalka with Pacific Opera Project at the Descanso Gardens in July 2024:
"...the beautiful Claire Pegram who offers a strong voice and vixen-ish characterization for the witchy princess, Esmerelda (Pegram was a featured soloist in LA Opera’s Turandot this year).." -Michael M. Landman-Karny, Theater-Los Angeles
...and in October 2023, a debut with Mission Opera in Santa Clarita as Madame Roland in the West Coast Premiere of Girondines, a new work in English.
Pegram also sings regularly with the Los Angeles Opera Chorus and was most recently seen in the April/May 2025 production of Golijov's Ainadamar. Pegram again joins the chorus for their 2026-2027 season in Carmen, Turandot, and Nabucco.
Ms. Pegram also sings with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and recently joined the Chorale and the LA Philharmonic for Mahler's 2nd Symphony as part of "Mahlerthon". Other recent engagements with the Chorale include performances of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder with Zubin Mehta, Esa-Pekka Salonen's Karawane, Ravel's Daphnis and Chloé, and the beloved Festival of Carols concert.
In September 2023, Pegram was a selected participant for a masterclass with star-baritone Lucas Meachem, sponsored by the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Los Angeles chapter (NATS-LA) and the Opera Buffs, INC. In April 2022, Ms. Pegram was named the First Place winner of the Gwendolyn Roberts Young Artist Competition and gave a recital in October 2022 as the NATS-LA "Young Artist of the Year”. Pegram solos regularly with the Sierra Linda Master Chorale, First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, and the Vallejo Drive Church in Glendale, CA.
On the opera stage, Pegram was scheduled to cover First Lady in Die Zauberflöte with the Aspen Opera Theater in 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19). Other recent opera engagements include Pegram as the title role in the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute’s 2019 production of Rodelinda by G.F. Handel:
“Pegram spun out long lines, revealing a strong, passionate, and distinctive presence...One show-stopping scene was the heart-rending duet between him [Taylor Boone] and his Queen (Pegram). This farewell duet intertwines the two singers' gorgeous voices.” -Timothy Lindeman, CVNC 2019, Rodelinda.
Ms. Pegram's roles with the Fletcher Opera Institute include Sophie in Massenet’s Werther (2019), the Governess in The Turn of the Screw (2018), Mélisande in Impressiones de Pelléas (2018), Tisbe in La Cenerentola (2018), and Trio Girl in Trouble in Tahiti (2017).
In the summer of 2017, Ms. Pegram made her debut with Opera in the Ozarks in Eureka Springs, Arkansas where she sang the title role in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, one of her most-beloved roles. Other 2017 performances included Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and Nannetta (Falstaff) with Opera MODO in Detroit, Michigan.
Claire Pegram received a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute in North Carolina in 2019. She received a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Michigan in 2016.