Cosí fan tutte programme book 2023

SARAH BRADY
SOPRANO
FIORDILIGI 24, 26, 27 EVENING MAY
Irish soprano Sarah Brady is a rising
star on the operatic and concert
stages. A graduate of the Royal Irish
Academy of Music, she joined the
prestigious young artist program
OperAvenir at Theater Basel in
2017. In the 2019–20 season, she became a member
of the ensemble at Theater Basel and was nominated
as Upcoming Artist of the Year by Opernwelt for her
achievements during this year. Since the 2020–21
season, she has been a member of the ensemble
of Staatsoper Hannover. Highlights of the 2022–23
season in Hannover include the Swan Princess in
Rismky-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Gretel in
Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, and a revival of the
Governess in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, which
was nominated as “Important Stream of the Year” by
Opernwelt in 2021. Outside of Hannover, she makes
her debut with the Nederlandse Reisopera singing
Gretel, and her orchestral engagements include
Jörg Widmann’s ARCHE at the Concertgebouw,
Amsterdam, and Haydn’s Theresienmesse in
Utrecht. This year also sees the release of her debut
album Matters of the Heart, a CD of songs by Robert
Schumann and Richard Strauss recorded at SRF
Studios in Zürich for Prospero Classical. She makes
her INO debut in Così fan tutte.
SHARON CARTY
MEZZO-SOPRANO
DORABELLA 19, 21, 23, 25, 27 AFTERNOON, 29, 31 MAY, 2 JUNE
Irish mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty
has firmly established a reputation
as a respected interpreter of both
early and contemporary works,
and she also has a busy schedule
in mainstream opera and concert
repertoire. She is an alumna of the RIAM, Dublin,
University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, and
the Oper Frankfurt Young Artist programme. She is
an Irish National Opera artistic partner, and was a
creative associate on the Arts Council’s pilot Creative
Schools scheme. 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 chambermusic
works. She is also a dedicated song recitalist,
most recently appearing in song recitals with pianists
Finghin Collins, Jonathan Ware and Graham Johnson.
Recent highlights include her London and Amsterdam
opera debuts with Donnacha Dennehy and Enda
Walsh’s The Second Violinist, and her Wexford Festival
Opera debut as Lucy Talbot in the European première
of William Bolcom’s Dinner at Eight. 2019 saw her
tour in the title role in Irish National Opera’s critically
acclaimed production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice,
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 received
critical acclaim for her first disc of Schubert Songs
with pianist Jonathan Ware, released in May 2020.
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