Mezzo-Soprano

Sharon Carty

Fledermaus

Biography

Irish mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty is an Irish National Opera artistic partner, and was seen most recently with INO as Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte. 2019 saw her tour in the title role in INO’s critically acclaimed production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, as well as making her London and Amsterdam opera debuts with Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s The Second Violinist. Sharon is a respected interpreter of both early and contemporary works. Her opera repertoire includes many of the important lyric and coloratura mezzo-soprano roles, and on the concert platform she has sung most of the major sacred concert works, including all the major works of Bach, as well as Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Mass in C minor, and numerous chamber-music works. She is also a dedicated song recitalist, most recently appearing in song recitals with pianists Finghin Collins, Jonathan Ware and Graham Johnson. She received critical acclaim for her first disc of Schubert Songs with pianist Jonathan Ware, released in May 2020.  Recent highlights include her Wexford Festival Opera debut as Lucy Talbot in the European première of William Bolcom’s Dinner at Eight, and Bach’s St Matthew Passion in the Netherlands, as well as her debut at the Spoleto Festival in Italy, in Silvia Colasanti’s new opera, Proserpine. She is an alumna of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, and the Oper Frankfurt Young Artist programme, and was a creative associate on the Arts Council’s pilot Creative Schools scheme.

February 2025