Sharon Carty is an alumna of the RIAM Dublin, MDW Vienna, and Oper Frankfurt Opera Studio. Regularly praised for her musicality and intelligence, her integrity as an artist and the warmth, clarity and agility of her voice, her opera repertoire includes many of the important lyric and coloratura mezzosoprano roles, such as Hänsel, Dido, Ruggiero, Dorabella, Cherubino, Ariodante, Orfeo (Gluck) and Sesto (Handel). Her concert repertoire includes all the principal works of J.S Bach as well as Messiah, Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor, and a broad song repertoire in addition to numerous chamber music works. She is also a dedicated song recitalist, most recently appearing in performances with Finghin Collins and Jonathan Ware.

Recent opera highlights include her Italian debut at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, where she premiered “Proserpine” by Silvia Colasanti, to critical acclaim, Dorabella with Irish National Opera, and her critically acclaimed company debut with Blackwater Valley Opera Festival as Sesto in Handel’s Giulio Cesare under the baton of Nicholas McGegan.

A champion of new music, she has recently given several world premieres of Irish composers, including Deirdre Gribbin/Ethan Stein “The Stones of Life”, Anne-Marie O’Farrell/Ed Vulliamy “Who’d ever think it would come to this?” and David Coonan/Dylan Coburn-Grey “Horse, Ape, Bird”.

The 2024/2025 season brings orchestral concerts with Wexford Festival Opera, the National Symphony Orchestra, chamber music in Ireland and Europe, and a role debut as Prince Orlwosky with Irish National Opera. 

Her discography includes La Traviata on Naxos DVD with the NDR Radiophilharmonie alongside Thomas Hampson and Marina Rebeka, The Mountebanks (Gilbert/Cellier) on CD with the BBC Concert Orchestra/John Andrews, as well as Schubert with Jonathan Ware on the GENUIN label, and two discs of C.V.Stanford songs on the SOMM and Resonus labels.

As the designated awardee of the 2024/2025 Music Network/Centre Culturel Irlandais Performance Residency, she is looking forward to spending a month in Paris working on French Baroque and Romantic repertoires.