Mezzo-Soprano Tara Erraught Launches North American Recital Tour Today

Mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught makes her premiere recital tour to North America this spring.

2013 Spring North American Recital Tour
(subject to change)

Friday, April 12, 2013
8:00 PM
American Recital Debut
Harriman - Jewell Series Kansas City, MO
Folly Theater
Henning Ruhe, piano

Sunday, April 21, 2013
3:00 PM
Green Music Center, Weill Hall Sonoma, CA
Sonoma State University
Jan and Maria Manetti Shrem Vocal Arts Series
Jonathan Ware, piano

Wednesday, April 24, 2013
8:00 PM
Van Recital Society Vancouver, Canada
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Jonathan Ware, piano

Tour Program:
Johannes Brahms
Gypsy Songs
Ottorino Respighi
O falce di luna, Nebbie, Notte
Antonin Dvorak
Four Songs op. 82
"Na to bych se podivala" from The Stubborn Lovers
Hugo Wolf
From Morick Songs
Er ist's, Das verlassene Magdlein
Begegnung, Lied eines Verliebten
Verborgenheit, Nixe Binsefuß
Georg Friedrich Handel
"Dopo note" from Ariodante
"Lascia chi'io pianga" from Rinaldo
Gioacchino Rossini
"Una voce poco fa" from IL Barbiere di Siviglia

Few emerging artists have captured the attention of the international opera public as the Irish-born mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught. A member of the Bavarian State Opera ensemble, she won widespread acclaim in February 2011 first in the title role of a new production of Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges and, in the same month, jumping in on five-days notice to perform Romeo in a new production of Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi for an ailing colleague. The latter catapulted Tara Erraught to world-wide acclaim.

The current season reaffirms Tara Erraught's growing stature internationally. In her debut season at the Vienna State Opera, the 26-year old Irish mezzo sings IL Barbiere di Siviglia in autumn as well as the premiere performances of a new production of La Cenerentola early in 2013. In Munich, there is a new production of Hansel und Gretel as well as her first performances of Die Fledermaus as Prince Orlovsky and of Les Contes d'Hoffmann as Nicklausse. After her premiere recital tour to North American this spring, she returns to Europe for the Munich Festival and more recitals.

In 2013-14 Ms. Erraught is scheduled to make her debut at the Theater an der Wien with a world premiere - The Harlot's Progress by Iain Bell -- as well asreturn to the Glyndebourne Opera Festival for the title role in a new production of Der Rosenkavalier. She is also scheduled for a second North American recital tour. Future seasons will bring opera debuts in Washington, San Francisco, and at the Metropolitan Opera.

A native of Dundalk, Ireland, Tara Erraught graduated from the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin and has been a member of the opera studio at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich since 2008. In summer 2010 she joined internationally celebrated French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet for the Prinsengrachtconcert telecast from the canals of Amsterdam and made her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Ms. Erraught won First Prize in the Jackub Pustine International Singing Competition in the Czech Republic along with the Zdar nad Sazavou Audience Prize in May, 2008. In that same year she was awarded with both the Houston Grand Opera Prize and the Washington National Opera Prize at the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Com-petition in Vienna. In March of 2010 she was awarded the National Concert Hall's Rising Star Prize in Dublin. She has also won the Dermott Troy prize for the best Irish singer.

Ms. Erraught considers herself fortunate to continue her studies in Dublin with the acclaimEd Royal Opera soprano Veronica Dunne who has been the guiding force in her musical career. In Munich, where she makes her home, she has the privilege to work with famed German mezzo-soprano Brigitta Fassbaender on her current repertoire.

Photo Credit: Courtesy IMGA Artists; Christian Kaufman