Irish mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty is a singer who has firmly established a reputation as a  respected interpreter of both early and contemporary works, alongside maintaining a busy  schedule in mainstream opera and concert repertoire. She is an alumna of the RIAM Dublin,  MDW Vienna, and Oper Frankfurt Young Artist Programme, and is currently an Artistic  Partner to Irish National Opera as well as a Creative Associate on the Irish Arts Council pilot  “Creative Schools” scheme. Regularly praised for her musicality and intelligence, her integrity as an artist and the  warmth, clarity and agility of her voice, her opera repertoire includes many of the important  lyric and coloratura mezzo-soprano roles, such as Hänsel, Dido, Ruggiero, Dorabella,  Cherubino, Ariodante, Orfeo and Sesto. On the concert platform her repertoire spans most  of the major sacred concert works, including all of the principal works by J. S .Bach as well  as Messiah, Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor, and a broad song repertoire in addition to  numerous chamber music works. She is also a dedicated song recitalist, most recently  appearing in performances with pianists Finghin Collins, Jonathan Ware and Graham  Johnson. Career highlights to date include her London and Amsterdam opera debuts with The Second  Violinist at the Barbican Theatre, and the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, her Wexford  Festival Opera debut as Lucy Talbot in the European première of William Bolcom’s Dinner at  Eight, the title role in Irish National Opera’s critically-acclaimed Orfeo ed Euridice and her  debut at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, where she premiered a new opera,  Proserpine by Silvia Colasanti, to critical acclaim. Summer 2022 sees her giving the world  premieres of David Coonan’s “Horse Ape Bird” with INO, and Deirdre Gribbin’s “The Stones  of Life” with the Irish Chamber orchestra. She will continue the 2022/2023 season with the  world premiere of Anne Marie O’Farrell’s and Ed Vulliamy’s new civil war cantata “”Who’d  ever think it would come to this?”, a concert tour with pianist Finghin Collins, and clarinettist John Finucane, as well as returning to INO to sing Dorabella in their new production of Cosi  fan tutte.  A regular collaborator with orchestras across Europe, her discography includes La Traviata on Naxos DVD with the NDR Radiophilharmonie alongside Thomas Hampson and Marina  Rebeka as well as The Mountebanks (Gilbert/Cellier) on CD with the BBC Concert  Orchestra. Her most recent CD, a disc of Schubert songs with pianist Jonathan Ware, was  released in May 2020. www.sharoncarty.com