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Allan James Clayton MBE (1981) is a British tenor singer.[1]

Allan Clayton MBE
Personal details
Alma mater	St John’s College
Occupation	Opera singer

Clayton was a chorister at Worcester Cathedral[1] and a choral scholar in the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge.[2] He was a BBC New Generation Artist from 2007-09[3] and winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Singer Award in 2018.[4]

Clayton was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to opera.[5]

In 2022 he starred in a Royal Opera House production of Peter Grimes which was hailed as one of the finest opera productions in the UK for decades. The Guardian said "Clayton makes a heartbreaking, supremely lyrical Grimes, singing with remarkable sensitivity and great refinement of tone"[6] and the FT described him as "vocally outstanding in the role, powerful, sensitive and dealing with its idiosyncratic vocal challenges as if they are no problem at all"[7]

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