Claudia Lindsey (born 1936 or 1937) is an American operatic soprano. Born in Harlem, she is a graduate of Brandeis University and studied singing in New York City with Anna Hamlin and Otto Guth. In 1965 she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a grant from the John Hay Whitney Foundation. That same year she made her professional opera debut with the New York City Opera as Clara in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.