Allan Clayton

Allan Clayton, born in 1981, is a British tenor. He was a chorister at Worcester Cathedral, a choral scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge, and a student at the Royal Academy of Music, and was a BBC New Generation Artist from 2007 to 2009. His roles at the Royal Opera House include the title roles in Peter Grimes and Jephtha and Christian in the world premiere of Festen, for which he won the 2025 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera. He has sung Grimes at the Metropolitan Opera and the Paris Opera, and the title role in Brett Dean’s Hamlet at Glyndebourne, the Met and the Bavarian State Opera. He received the Royal Philharmonic Society Singer Award in 2018 and was appointed MBE in 2021.