Soprano

Laura Aherne

Biography

Soprano Laura Aherne is a Kildare native and graduate of the Royal College of Music, where she was the Joseph Clover Scholar, and the Royal Irish Academy of Music. An INO Studio Artist, she will cover the roles of Vixen in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen and First Wood Nymph in Dvořák’s Rusalka. As a Wexford Factory Artist in 2024, she sang the roles of Nedda in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci and Adina and Giannetta in Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, and in the same year was awarded the Danone Award for Young Outstanding Female Artist.

Laura has won many other awards including the Canto al Serchio Award at the Birr Festival of Music and the Brackaville Bursary for Vocal Students by Irish Heritage UK. She was also recently a competitor in the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition.

Her opera credits include Tweedledee in Will Todd’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Opera Collective Ireland), Maria in the work premiere of Jasmine Morris’ Church on the Blood (RCM) and The Lost Girl in the premiere of Connie Harris’ The Drifterman (RCM).

Laura has performed in venues and festivals across Ireland and the UK including the Wigmore Hall, the National Opera House (Ireland), the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival, McGovern Park, and the Irish Embassy in London. She is currently preparing to perform the roles of Corinna and Delia in Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims and Tytania in Britten’s A Little Midsummer Night’s Dream at the 2025 Wexford Festival Opera.

September 2025.