Mezzo-soprano

Sinéad O'Kelly

Biography

Belfast mezzo-soprano Sinéad O’Kelly is an award-winning multidisciplinary singer with decades of stage experience. Operatic roles include Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Amando in Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, Flora in Verdi’s La traviata, Second Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Sandmann in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel and Mércèdes in Bizet’s Carmen, all for Opernhaus Zürich, and Ottone in Vivaldi’s Griselda (Irish National Opera). Musical theatre roles include The Baker’s Wife in Sondheim’s Into the Woods (NI Opera). Other projects include featuring as a muse in the award-winning film, Old Friends and Other Days (NI Opera), originating a role in Michael Gallen’s Elsewhere (chosen in Sara Keating’s Best of 2021 in The Irish Times), and producing and starring in a one-woman operatic triptych the state of her — with composer Caitlin Smith and director Franciska Ery — to premiere in 2023. Sinéad is also a freelance writer, and runs her own boutique agency, which helps artists to find financial independence.

May 2022