Sarah Brady
The Irish soprano Sarah Brady is an emerging artist of the younger generation who is equally at home on the opera stage and in the concert hall. As a graduate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music she was selected in 2017 to join Theater Basel’s renowned opera studio OperAvenir. In the 2019/20 season she became an ensemble member of Theater Basel and was nominated as Young Artist of the Year by Opernwelt for her achievements.
Since the 2020/21 season she has been a member of the ensemble of Hanover State Opera, where she has made a series of role debuts, among them the Swan Princess in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Governess in The Turn of the Screw, Gilda in Rigoletto, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, La Bellezza in a staged production of Handel’s oratorio Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel and Helena in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In addition, she made her debuts at the Nederlandse Reisopera as Gretel and with Irish National Opera as Fiordiligi in the 2022/23 season.
Her various orchestral concert engagements include Jörg Widmann’s Arche at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw under Karina Cannelakis and Haydn’s Theresienmesse in Utrecht.
As a passionate song and oratorio singer, she has appeared with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, the Ensemble Marsyas, the National Symphony Orchestra and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, and has sung works such as Bach’s St John Passion, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s The Creation and Mozart’s Requiem, Coronation Mass, Vesperae solennes de Confessore and Exsultate, jubilate.
In 2022 she released her debut album Matters of the Heart, of lieder by Robert Schumann and Richard Strauss, recorded with the pianist Stephen Delaney for Prospero Classical.
Sarah Brady has won numerous awards and scholarships, including third prize at the International Mozart Singing Competition, and, in 2017, the Bernadette Greevy Award and the Royal Dublin Society Music Bursary.