Debuts in the US and France part of Tara Erraught’s 2019 winter/spring season

Following a fall 2018 that included her acclaimed company debut with the Welsh National Opera singing the role of Angelina in La Cenerentola in an eight-city tour of the United Kingdom and recital debuts on the UK’s Oxford Lieder Festival and Sir Arthur Bliss International Song Series, mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught continues to expand her relationships in the United States and France. Beginning in February, following performances of her first Italian Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Staatsoper Berlin, Ms. Erraught makes debuts with three US orchestras: with the Indianapolis Symphony, she sings Mahler’s Ruckert Lieder; with Milwaukee Symphony in March, Brahms’ A German Requiem; and in May she closes the Savannah Philharmonic’s 10^th anniversary season singing in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection.” In April, she makes her debut with the Orchestre National de Lyon in France, singing in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.

Spring engagements also include the Deutsche Oper am Rein Aids Gala 2019 in Dusseldorf, Germany, a return to Ireland’s National Concert Hall International Concert Series in recital, and joining the Wiener Staatsoper on their Don Giovanni tour in Germany. Upcoming summer engagements include a debut with the UK’s Holkham Hall Chamber Music Concert Series, her debut with Argentina's Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires and a return to Austria’s Schubertiade Schwarzenberg.

2019

January 20, 25, 30, February 8, 10, 12 Berlin Staatsoper - Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira)

Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany

 

February 21, 22 Indianapolis Symphony (Debut)

Hilbert Circle Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, USA

21 -2018-2019 Coffee Classical Series

22-2018-2019 Lilly Classical Series

MAHLER Ruckert Lieder

 

March 23 Deutsche Oper Am Rein - AIDS Gala 2019

Opernhaus Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf Germany

10th Festive Opera Gala in support of the German AIDS Foundation

Orchestra Dusseldorfer Symphoniker

Moderation Joachim Llambi

with Federica Lombardi; Levy Sekgapane; Jorge Espino; Catherine Trottmann; Bogdan Talos; Ruzan Mantashyan; Aurelia Florian; Yosep Kang; Rosa Feola; Levente Molnar; Stefano La Colla

Musical Director Paolo Arrivabeni

 

March 29, 30 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (Debut)

Marcus Center for the Perf. Arts, Milwaukee, WI

BRAHMS A German Requiem

with Stephen Powell baritone

 

April 18, 19 Orchestra National de Lyon (Debut)

L'Auditorium de Lyon, Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France

J. S. BACH St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

with Jane Archibald, soprano; Ian Bostridge, Stanislas de Barbeyrac tenors;

Mark Stone, baritone; Matthew Buswell, bass-baritone

Chœur de chambre de Namur; Maîtrise de la primatiale Saint-Jean

Riccardo Minasi, Conductor

 

April 26 National Concert Hall International Concert Series

National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland

Program to include works by Strauss, Mahler, and Rossini

with Dr. John O'Conor, piano

 

May 4 Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra (Debut)

Johnny Mercer Theatre, Savannah, GA

MAHLER Symphony No. 2 in C minor, “Resurrection”

with Sari Gruber, soprano

 

May 19 Weiner Staatsoper - Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira) (tour)

Mendelssohn-Saal, Tonhalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

Orchester & Chor der Wiener Staatsoper

Irish-born mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught enjoys an ever-growing international career on the opera, orchestral and recital stages, acclaimed for her rich voice, expansive range and dynamic stage presence. Named in 2018 by RTE as one of 25 “movers and shakers who define Irish culture,” in recent seasons she has sung world premieres, made numerous role debuts, and appeared in recitals and concerts throughout the United States, Canada, Denmark, France, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Spain, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

Recent opera highlights include company debuts with Gran Teatre del Liceu (Stephano, Romeo et Juliette); The Metropolitan Opera (Nichlausse/The Muse, Les Contes d’Hoffman and Hansel in Hansel und Gretel); Irish National Opera's first season (Susanna, The Marriage of Figaro); Staatsoper Berlin (Rosina, Il Barbiere di Siviglia); Ireland’s Opera Theater Company (Dona Elvira in the world premiere of Roddy Doyle’s new translation of Mozart’s Don Giovanni) and Wide Open Opera (Rosina in a new production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia). Role debuts include Annius in La Clemenza di Tito with Joyce DiDonato as Sexto and Rolando Villazon as Tito under Yannick Nezet-Seguin in Baden Baden; and at the Salzburg Festival singing Siebel in a new production of Faust with the Vienna Philharmonic. A former resident principal soloist (2010-2018) with the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Tara Erraught has made 41 role debuts with the company alone.

Recital and orchestral performances include Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, the Celebrity Series of Boston, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Terrace Theater, Vocal Arts DC, Kansas City’s Harriman-Jewell Series, and Ann Arbor’s University Musical Society in the USA; Canada’s Vancouver Recital Society; London’s Wigmore Hall; Austria’s Schubertiade, Schwarzenberg; France’s Le Grand Foyer Series, Opera de Lille; Japan’s Tokyo Opera Nomori; Mexico’s Auditorio Nacional; Dublin’s National Concert Hall, and concerts with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra, The South Denmark Philharmonic and at Germany’s Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Heidelberger Frühling, Munich’s Nymphenburg Sommer and Bayerische Festspiele.

Tara Erraught can be heard on Deutsche Gramophone’s 2018 Grammy-nominated live concert recording of Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito in the role of Annius, and in Glyndebourne’s 2010 recording of Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel in the role of the Sandman. She can be seen on DVD in the title role of Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier on the Opus Arte label.

Ms. Erraught is the recipient of many awards, including the Bavarian government’s prestigious Pro meritis scientiae et litterarum in recognition for outstanding contribution to the arts (2013), and Dublin’s National Concert Hall’s Rising Star Award (2010). A native of Dundalk, Ireland, Ms. Erraught is a graduate of Dublin’s Royal Irish Academy of Music.

Contact: Laura Grant, Grant Communications 917.359.7319; Laura@grant-communications.com