Tara Erraught

Worldwide representation

Tara Erraught is one of the leading international singers whose versatile repertoire ranges from baroque to Mozart, the belcanto repertoire, romantic and contemporary music.

In the 2024/25 season, Tara Erraught will once again appear as Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) at the Berlin State Opera and as Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito) at the Hamburg State Opera. At the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden she will sing the title part in Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride. She will appear with the Vienna State Opera as Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) in Monte Carlo. The much sought-after artist is also very active again in the concert field. She gives recitals at the Wigmore Hall and at the Praga Festival in Easton and sings orchestral songs by Alma Mahler with the SWR. She has an extensive collaboration with the National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, which includes a gala concert, a programme of music by Haydn and Mozart and a masterclass for young singers.

Highlights of recent seasons include her role debut as the title role in Iphigénie en Tauride, Cendrillon and Donna Elvira at the Opéra de Paris, as well as her role debut as Maria Stuarda at the Irish National Opera. Tara Erraught was a member of the Opera Studio and the ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera and is a regular guest in Munich, where she was most recently celebrated as Rosina and Adalgisa (Norma). Other roles in Munich have included Susanna, Despina, Hänsel, Orlofsky, Sesto, Angelina (La Cenerentola), Roméo and Kathleen Scott in the successful world premiere of Srnka's opera South Pole. At the Metropolitan Opera New York she was celebrated as Nicklausse (The Tales of Hoffmann) and Hänsel. Tara Erraught made guest appearances at the Vienna State Opera as Donna Elvira, Komponist and Rosina. As Angelina in the new production of La Cenerentola, she was hailed as the "new belcanto queen" by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. She made her debut at the 2016 Salzburg Festival as Siebel in Gounod's Faust. At the Baden-Baden Festival Theatre, she sang Annio (La Clemenza di Tito) under Yannick Nézet-Séguin. In Hamburg, she made her debuts as Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte), Alice (Falstaff) and Vitellia.

Tara Erraught has also given recitals at the Wigmore Hall in London, at the Schubertiade, in Munich, Barcelona, Oxford and Eppan. A special honour was the invitation to the jubilee song recital to celebrate the 100th birthday of Victoria de los Angeles in Barcelona, which she also presented at London's Wigmore Hall. Concert engagements have taken her to the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Herbert Blomstedt, the Minnesota Orchestra under Simone Young and a Mozart gala with the Munich Radio Orchestra under Alexander Soddy. The artist performed in Beethoven's 9th Symphony in Duisburg under the baton of Eun Sun Kim. Her international concert activities have also taken her to New York's Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Centre in Washington, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver, Savannah, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Dublin, Lyon and Tokyo. She sang Mozart's Requiem with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Born in Dundalk, Ireland, Tara Erraught graduated from the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. Tara Erraught works regularly with Brigitte Fassbaender.

2024/25

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