Tenor

Aaron O'Hare

Norma

Biography

Northern Irish tenor Aaron O’Hare has performed with leading opera companies across the UK and Ireland. For Irish National Opera, he has appeared as Fourth Jew in Richard Strauss’s Salome and Alfred in Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus, and will return in 2027 as Pong in Puccini’s Turandot. Recent highlights include Rinnucio in Opera up Close’s new adaptation of Puccini’s Gianni Schicci, Spoletta in Puccini’s Tosca, Monsieur Triquet in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (NI Opera), and Adam in Jonathan Dove’s The Walk from the Garden (Opera Collective Ireland). As an Associate Artist with Welsh National Opera (2020-2022), Aaron sang the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni on tour, Stárek in Janáček’s Jenůfa, and the March Hare/White Knight in Will Todd’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Other notable performances include Schaunard in Puccini’s La bohème (NI Opera), and in Michael Gallen’s Elsewhere (Straymaker/Abbey Theatre). Aaron studied at the University of Ulster and the Royal Northern College of Music under Matthew Best. He won NI Opera’s Festival of Voice competition and is a recipient of the BBC NI and Arts Council NI Young Musician’s Platform Award. He was also a Young Artist at Opera Holland Park in 2018, and a member of Lyon Opéra Studio at the Opéra de Lyon from 2019-2020.

May 2026.