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July 2021

“It was Love at first sit” Irish Times Feature

March 2021

May 2020

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!New CD release!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Schubert’s Four Seasons with Jonathan Ware

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Read reviews here : Irish Times, Music web international, Planet Hugill,

Operawire, Journal of Music, Golden Plec

Podcast

I was delighted to partner with Irish National Opera and DLR Libraries

to produce this podcast, explaining all the operatic voice types.

Podcast 1 deals with the lower voices (Bass, Baritone and tenor)

Listen to Podcast 1 here

Podcast 2 deals with the higher voices (Countertenor, Contralto, Mezzo-soprano and Soprano)

Listen to Podcast 2 here

June 2020

October 2020

Sharon Carty announced as Maynooth campus associate artist for 2020/2021

Full details here

Female composer Fridays

For the next few Fridays at 5pm, Una Hunt and I will be releasing tracks from our 2021 Drogheda Arts Festival recital of women composers.

Next up is Hope Temple’s “Adieu l’amour”

August 1st 8.00pm (ONLINE)

bach and Brahms Organ music with accompanying Chorales

Sept 12th 3.30pm LIVE!!!!

Music in Monkstown Recital Dublin September 12th

Mozart, Schubert & Spohr

with

Finghin Collins (Piano) & John Finucane (Clarinet)

Ticket Details Here

November 14th 2021 West Wicklow Festival

Sharon Carty, Mezzo-soprano & Gary Beecher, Piano

Russborough House

Next Up Jan 21st-23rd 2022 Galway

Music for Galway Midwinter Festival : Stanford

“S t a y i n g T r u e t o h e r v o i c e ” Connaught tribune

Featuring music by:

Stanford, Schumann, Clarke, Herbert, Bridge, et/al

Artists include :

JCT Arts in Junior Cycle/Irish National Opera “Opera Club for secondary teachers

Running from November 2021-March 2022

Interactive discussions and fun workshops for secondary teachers of any subject, who wish to learn more about opera and how it can be incorporated into various school subject lesson plans.

Irish National Opera announces 2022-2023 Season

May-June 2023 Dorabella/Cosi Fan Tutte

Wexford/Dublin/Limerick/Cork/Galway

Details here

Listen to the world premiere performance of Anne Marie O’Farrel’s

“Who’d ever think it would come to this?” Civil war Cantata here

Performed on Sept 30th 2022 in UCD O’Reilly Hall

Playlist

Get to know the repertoire for the upcoming “Walled City Festival” Recital with Fiachra Garvey.

Subscribe on youTube for updates

INO Cosi fan tutte May/June 2023

Aaaaaand we’re open!

Reviews:

Irish Times : “captivating singing, sparky music and superb comic timing”

Bachtrack : “Sharon Carty was equally impressive as Dorabella. Here too, the acting was thoroughly convincing. Notably more flighty and flirty from the get go, her capitulation and her encouragement of her sister’s was impeccably done. Her control and pearly tone shone out many the time as evinced by her top B flat in her aria “È amore un ladroncello”.

Irish Examiner : “Cosi fan Tutte puts women at the heart of Mozart's classic”

Golden Plec : “as her sister Dorabella, Sharon Carty sings fabulously, clearly embracing this role with enjoyable verve, impassioned in Smanie implacabile [‘Implacable longings’]. She is warmly expressive in the duet Il core vi dono [‘I give you this heart’] with Russell, one of the most extraordinary moments of the opera, with words and music creating magic before our eyes.”

No more workhorse : “The six principal roles on the night were all superbly played by Irish singers.”

Opera Chaser : “Sharon Carty’s dynamically charged vocal expressivity as Dorabella”

Irish Independent : “Singing throughout is a joy”

OperaJournal : “Anna Devin and Sharon Carty were everything you could hope for as Fiordiligi and Dorabella, their delivery bright and sparkling, filled with emotional sentiments”

Cosi fan tutte trailer

Resonus Classics CD Recording Oct 2023

Due for release in late 2024

Witches, bitches & Britches. Sligo Baroque Festival

29th Sept 2023

Oct 25th 2023 Irish National Opera

“Enchanted Baroque” event at Tailors’ Hall Dublin

Sunday Oct 29th 2023

Main stage rectial Wexford Opera Festival

Soundtrack Vocals for Macnas Parade 2023

CNÁmha la Loba

Composer : Anna Mullarkey

Wed 22nd Nov

Tune in to Lorcan Murray on Lyric FM!!

Live Radio Broadcast from RTE Studio 1

RTE Concert Orchestra

Sharon Carty, Mezzo-soprano

Gavan Ring, Tenor

Robert Houlihan, Conductor

Coming Soon!

Release Feb 9th 2024 on Somm Records

Christmas Concerts 2024

Messiah OLCS Dublin Choral Foundation

Sharon Carty Announced as recipient of 2024/2025 Music Network/CCI Paris Residency!

Coming Soon! New release on Resonus Classics

Tues May 14th : Interview in the Irish Independent ahead of Blackwater Valley Opera Festival Debut!

Photo : Frank Mc Grath

Giulio Cesare at Blackwater Valley Opera Festival

Photo : Matt Brooker

“Sesto’s Hamlet-like torment, and furious determination to turn himself from boy to pitiless avenger, was likewise brilliantly got over in Sharon Carty’s great performance, fighting with fear and indecision with concentrated, undemonstrative actorly art.”

“Cornelia and Sesto brought a real emotional heart to things with centred, rock-solid performances. “

(Opera Now)

“Particularly powerful are the scenes between mezzos, Carolyn Holt as Cornelia and Sharon Carty as Sesto.“

(Irish Examiner)

“…the brighter tones of the marvellous Sharon Carty as her son Sesto, style-perfect.”

(The Arts Desk)

“..Sharon Carty (mezzo-soprano) as the vengeful Sesto, likewise deliver full blooded and nuanced performances.”

(theatre-News.com)

Announcement :

Sharon Carty next Artistic Director of Sligo Baroque Music Festival

2024-2025 Season announced!