The Irish mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught is one of the world’s leading singers. Her repertory ranges from the Baroque era and Mozart to bel canto and Romantic works to contemporary music.
In the 2025/26 season she has sung Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) — one of her signature roles — at the Vienna State Opera and the Semperoper Dresden, Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Berlin State Opera, Madama Cortese (Il viaggio a Reims) at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, Mozart arias with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Lieder by Alma Mahler with the Dresden Philharmonic under Emmanuel Tjeknavorian and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel with the Welsh National Opera Orchestra.
Highlights of past seasons have included Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito) at the Hamburg State Opera, the title roles of Iphigénie en Tauride and Cendrillon and Donna Elvira at the Paris Opéra, the title role of Maria Stuarda at the Irish National Opera and Donna Elvira in a guest appearance by the Vienna State Opera in Monte Carlo. Tara Erraught was a member of both the Opera Studio and the ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera, where she has since returned regularly as a guest and most recently triumphed in the roles of Rosina and Adalgisa (Norma). Previously in Munich she sang Mozart’s Susanna, Despina and Sesto, Angelina (La Cenerentola), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus) and Kathleen Scott in the world premiere of Miroslav Srnka’s South Pole. She has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera as Nicklausse (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) and Hänsel, and at the Vienna State Opera as Donna Elvira, the Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Rosina and Angelina in a new production of La Cenerentola. In 2016 she made her Salzburg Festival debut as Siébel (Faust). She has sung Annio (La clemenza di Tito) under Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, and made her role debuts as Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Alice (Falstaff) and Vitellia in Hamburg.
Tara Erraught has given song recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall, at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, and in Munich, Barcelona, Oxford and Eppan. In concert she has appeared with, among others, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Herbert Blomstedt, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra under Simone Young, in a Mozart gala with the Munich Radio Orchestra under Alexander Soddy and in Mozart’s Requiem with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin. She enjoys regular collaborations with the National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin. Her concert activity in the USA has included performances at New York’s Carnegie Hall and at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
