Répétiteur

Adam McDonagh

Rusalka, Norma

Biography

Dublin-born Adam McDonagh is an award-winning pianist, conductor, and countertenor. Previous répétiteur experience with Irish National Opera includes assisting on productions of Dvořak’s Rusalka, Gounod’s Faust, Puccini’s La bohème, Richard Strauss’s Salome, and Verdi’s La traviata, as well as Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor (Buxton International Festival), Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Puccini’s La fanciulla del West (Opera Holland Park), Handel’s Susanna (TU Dublin Conservatoire), Britten’s Owen Wingrave (Opera Collective Ireland), Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (Glasthule Opera), Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore (Blackwater Valley Opera Festival), and Puccini’s Suor Angelica (Empyrean Ensemble). Upcoming productions include Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel (Opera North), Will Todd’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Puccini’s Turandot (Opera Holland Park), Bizet’s Carmen (INO), and Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park (Opera Collective Ireland). Adam trained at the National Opera Studio in London, and is an alumnus of the INO Studio and the Georg Solti Accademia. He was awarded a BMus (Performance) from TU Dublin Conservatoire, MPhil in Music Studies from Cambridge University, and MMus (Performance) in Répétiteur at TU Dublin Conservatoire supported by the INO Répétiteur Scholarship. A Samling Artist, Adam is a regular song recitalist in Ireland and the UK, and has accompanied masterclasses with Elīna Garanča, Ann Murray, David Butt Philip, Ryan Speedo Green and Stuart Skelton. Adam won the Feis Ceoil Orchestral Conducting competition in 2024, and recently conducted the RTÉ Concert Orchestra for a RTÉ Lyric FM studio recording. He was also a member of the Wexford Festival Opera 2025 ‘Factory’ and made his role début as Oberon in Britten’s A (Little) Midsummer Night’s Dream.

March 2026