Sharon
Carty
RIAM Dublin
MDW Wien
Oper Frankfurt Opera Studio
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NSO SEASON
NSO: Stanford 100
National Symphony Orchestra
Gerhard Markson conductor
Máire Flavin soprano
Sharon Carty mezzo-soprano
James Way tenor
John Molloy bass
National Symphony Chorus
David Young choral director
Stanford Requiem
Former NSO Principal Conductor Gerhard Markson returns to conclude the NSO’s centenary commemorations of Dublin-born Charles Villiers Stanford’s death with one of his crowning glories: the monumental and moving Requiem.
Admired by Verdi and cast on the grandest of scales, it is a heartfelt and tender work of involving intimacy and blazing faith in which Stanford’s mastery of drama, opera, song and orchestration come triumphantly together.
Did you know?
Although born in Dublin, Stanford lived most of his life in London where he became one of the most important voices in Anglican Church music.
He began composing aged four and gave his first piano recital aged nine.
A prolific composer, the Requiem was just one of 30 large-scale choral works, he also found time to teach, his pupils including Holst and Vaughan Williams.
His Requiem, inspired by the death of the painter, Lord Frederic Leighton, and is notable for its use of the Catholic Mass.
Listen out for…
The entry of the organ and brass in the first movement after the choir’s ecstatic declaration of ‘et lux’ (‘and light’).
The liquid floating, rising and falling of choral and solo voices against the orchestra’s angelic lightness of touch in the ‘Kyrie’.
The heart-stopping moment of silence in the ‘Dies Irae’ that foregrounds Stanford’s sense of profound loss.
The orchestra surging through the ‘Agnus Dei’ towards the rousing ‘Lux aeterna’ that leads to the luminous warmth of the ending.
Sharon Carty
Alto
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Chamber music recital
Sharon Carty, Mezzo-soprano
John Finucane, Clarinet
Finghin Collins, Piano/curation
Sharon Carty
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FEBRUARY 2025
NATIONWIDE TOUR
Die Fledermaus
Man-about-town Eisenstein is supposed to report to jail, his wife Rosalinde will stay home for the night and their maid Adele needs to visit a sick aunt. Yet all three turn up in disguise at Count Orlofsky’s masked ball. Mistaken identities and heavy flirting lead to a night of hilarity.
Famous for his “The Blue Danube” waltz, Fledermaus is Johann Strauss’ most popular opera. Best-known for its tunefulness, upbeat musicality and Viennese lilt, the story has hilarious twists and turns, with disguises, double crossings and rivers of champagne.
Fledermaus showcases outstanding Irish vocal talent with sopranos Jade Phoenix and Sarah Shine as Rosalinde and her maid Adele, and mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty as Prince Orlofsky. American tenor Alex McKissick sings Eisenstein and baritone Ben McAteer (Don Pasquale 2023) is Dr Falke. The ensemble cast also includes soprano Megan O'Neill and tenors Aaron O'Hare and William Pearson. Fledermaus is conducted by Richard Peirson and directed Davey Kelleher, with set design by Paul O'Mahony, costume design by Catherine Fay and lighting design by Sinead McKenna.
Running time is 2 hours 30 mins including one interval.
Sung in English.
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Sharon Carty
Prince Orlofsky
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Recent Highlights
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Book opera tickets for Giulio Cesare at Blackwater Valley Opera Festival 2024.
Ireland’s Summer Opera Festival will return from 27 May – 3 June 2024 with four performances of G.F. Handel’s Giulio Cesare in the grounds of Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford.
Giulio Cesare is one of Handel’s greatest Italian operas, and is now one of the most performed Baroque operas in the repertoire. The headline opera will feature the Irish Baroque Orchestra and the BVOF Chorus, conducted by Nicholas McGegan, directed by Tom Creed, with Set & Light Design by Aedín Cosgrove and Costume Design by Catherine Fay. The Giulio Cesare cast will include Ingeborg Bröcheler, Anna Devin, Nils Wanderer, Carolyn Holt, Sharon Carty, Dean Murphy, Iestyn Morris and Fionn Ó hAlmhain.
Four evening performances of this year’s opera – our headline festival event, will take place in the grounds Lismore Castle, with an additional performance of a Dress Rehearsal for Schools on Monday 27 May. The production is made possible with generous production sponsorship from the John Pollard Foundation.
DATE & TIME: Weds 29 May, Fri 31 May, Sat 1, Sun 2 June at 7.45pm
(Dress Rehearsal for Schools – Mon 27 May at 7.45pm)
VENUE: Lismore Castle, Co Waterford
TICKET PRICES: €75 – €220
MUSIC: G.F. Handel
Libretto: Nicola Francesco Haym
Language: Italian
Duration: 3 1/2 hours including 45 minute interval
Sharon Carty
Sesto
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Soprano Celine Byrne
Mezzo Sharon Carty
Baritone Paolo Bordogna
The RTÉ Concert Orchestra has built a strong connection with the public, at home and abroad, which saw it voted the World’s Favourite Orchestra in a 2015 Bachtrack.com poll. We can expect an evening of thrilling emotional highs as we run the gamut from pleasure to despair, to ecstasy with some of opera’s most ravishing arias.
Conducted by Wexford Festival Opera’s guest conductor Francesco Cilluffo, and featuring four of operas extraordinary singers, this concert is set to bring audiences on a journey infused with passion, romance and drama, with orchestral favourites for sure to be as familiar to everyone.
A special treat for all music lovers everywhere.
Sharon Carty
Mezzosoprano
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Sharon Carty
Dorabella
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Lunchtime main stage recital
Sharon Carty, Mezzo-soprano
Carmen Santoro, Piano
Sharon Carty
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Biography
Irish mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty is a singer who has firmly established a reputation as a respected interpreter of both early and contemporary works, alongside maintaining a busy schedule in mainstream opera and concert repertoire. She is an alumna of the RIAM Dublin, MDW Vienna, and Oper Frankfurt Young Artist Programme, and is currently an Artistic Partner to Irish National Opera as well as a Creative Associate on the Irish Arts Council pilot “Creative Schools” scheme. Regularly praised for her musicality and intelligence, her integrity as an artist and the warmth, clarity and agility of her voice, her opera repertoire includes many of the important lyric and coloratura mezzo-soprano roles, such as Hänsel, Dido, Ruggiero, Dorabella, Cherubino, Ariodante, Orfeo and Sesto. On the concert platform her repertoire spans most of the major sacred concert works, including all of the principal works by J. S .Bach as well as Messiah, Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor, and a broad song repertoire in addition to numerous chamber music works. She is also a dedicated song recitalist, most recently appearing in performances with pianists Finghin Collins, Jonathan Ware and Graham Johnson. Career highlights to date include her London and Amsterdam opera debuts with The Second Violinist at the Barbican Theatre, and the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, her Wexford Festival Opera debut as Lucy Talbot in the European première of William Bolcom’s Dinner at Eight, the title role in Irish National Opera’s critically-acclaimed Orfeo ed Euridice and her debut at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, where she premiered a new opera, Proserpine by Silvia Colasanti, to critical acclaim. Summer 2022 sees her giving the world premieres of David Coonan’s “Horse Ape Bird” with INO, and Deirdre Gribbin’s “The Stones of Life” with the Irish Chamber orchestra. She will continue the 2022/2023 season with the world premiere of Anne Marie O’Farrell’s and Ed Vulliamy’s new civil war cantata “”Who’d ever think it would come to this?”, a concert tour with pianist Finghin Collins, and clarinettist John Finucane, as well as returning to INO to sing Dorabella in their new production of Cosi fan tutte. A regular collaborator with orchestras across Europe, her discography includes La Traviata on Naxos DVD with the NDR Radiophilharmonie alongside Thomas Hampson and Marina Rebeka as well as The Mountebanks (Gilbert/Cellier) on CD with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Her most recent CD, a disc of Schubert songs with pianist Jonathan Ware, was released in May 2020. www.sharoncarty.com
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