About this Event
Midwinter Gala Concert
Season Four opens on 4 December 2025 with a firecracker programme of baroque brilliance, with music by JS Bach and Handel.
A concert for the whole family (children and student tickets ÂŁ5 - valid student id card).
Kindly sponsored by Alchemy Technology Services, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the concert features internationally-acclaimed Irish Mezzo-Soprano, Tara Erraught .
The programme will be played on authentic historic instruments and marks the the launch of the Le Foyer des Artistes singers.
- đź“… Thursday 4 December , 2025 at 7:30pm
- đź“Ť St Columb's Hall, 10a Newmarket St, Orchard St, Derry BT48 6EB
Tara Erraught is one of the leading international singers, whose versatile repertoire spans from Baroque through Mozart, the bel canto repertoire and Romantic works to contemporary music.
In the 2025/26 season, Tara Erraught will appear in her signature role of Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Vienna State Opera and the Semperoper Dresden. As Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), she returns to the Berlin State Opera. Her debut at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival and the Salzburg Festival as Madame Cortese in Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims is eagerly anticipated. Concert engagements will take her to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, to the Dresden Philharmonic under Emmanuel Tjeknavorian with songs by Alma Mahler, and to the Welsh National Orchestra, where she will perform Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel.
Highlights of recent seasons include her role debut as Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito) at the Hamburg State Opera, her debut in the title role of Iphigénie en Tauride, as well as Cendrillon and Donna Elvira at the Opéra de Paris; her role debut as Maria Stuarda at Irish National Opera; and Donna Elvira on tour with the Vienna State Opera in Monte Carlo. Tara Erraught was a member of the Opera Studio and ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera, where she continues to appear regularly. Most recently she was acclaimed as Rosina and Adalgisa (Norma). Further roles in Munich have included Susanna, Despina, Hänsel, Orlofsky, Sesto, Angelina (La Cenerentola), Roméo, and Kathleen Scott in the highly successful world premiere of Srnka’s South Pole. At the Metropolitan Opera New York she was celebrated as Nicklausse (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) and Hänsel. At the Vienna State Opera she has appeared as Donna Elvira, the Composer, and Rosina. As Angelina in the new production of La Cenerentola, she was hailed by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as the “new Queen of Bel Canto.” At the Salzburg Festival 2016 she made her debut as Siebel in Gounod’s Faust. At the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden she sang Annio (La Clemenza di Tito) under Yannick Nézet-Séguin. In Hamburg she debuted as Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Alice (Falstaff), and Vitellia.
Tara Erraught has also given song recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall, at the Schubertiade, in Munich, Barcelona, Oxford and Eppan. A particular honor was the invitation to the anniversary recital celebrating the 100th birthday of Victoria de los Angeles in Barcelona, which she also presented at Wigmore Hall in London. Concert engagements have taken her to the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Herbert Blomstedt, to the SWR, to the Minnesota Orchestra under Simone Young, and with a Mozart Gala to the Munich Radio Orchestra under Alexander Soddy. A close and regular collaboration connects her with the National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin. Her international concert career has also taken her to New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver, Savannah, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Dublin, Lyon, and Tokyo. With the Philadelphia Orchestra she sang Mozart’s Requiem under Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Born in Dundalk, Ireland, Tara Erraught graduated from the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. She works regularly with Brigitte Fassbaender.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St Columb's Hall, 10a Orchard Street, Londonderry, United Kingdom
GBP 5.00 to GBP 40.00
