Tara Erraught
Overview
Tara was born in Dundalk, Ireland, and studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Her versatile repertoire spans from Baroque through Mozart, the bel canto repertoire and Romantic works to contemporary music. She works regularly with Brigitte Fassbaender.
In the 2025/26 Season, Tara appears in her signature role of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Vienna State Opera and the Semperoper Dresden. She also returns to the Berlin State Opera as Rosina in The Barber of Seville and debuts at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival and the Salzburg Festival as Madame Cortese in Il viaggio a Reims. In concert, she sings with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic under Emmanuel Tjeknavorian with songs by Mahler, and with the WNO Orchestra, where she performs Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel.
Recent highlights include: role debuts as Vitellia The Clemency of Titus, Fiordiligi Così fan tutte and Alice Ford Falstaff (Hamburg State Opera); debut as title role Iphigenia in Tauris, title role Cendrillon, Donna Elvira Don Giovanni (Opéra national de Paris); role debut as title role Maria Stuarda (INO); Nicklausse Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Metropolitan Opera); Rosina and Adalgisa Norma, Despina Così fan tutte, Orlofsky Die Fledermaus, Romeo Romeo and Juliet, Hansel Hansel and Gretel, Angelina La Cenerentola and Kathleen Scott in the world premiere of Srnka’s South Pole (Bavarian State Opera).
Tara has given song recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall and at the Schubertiade in Munich, Barcelona, Oxford and Eppan. A particular honour 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. Concert engagements have taken her to the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Herbert Blomstedt, the Minnesota Orchestra under Simone Young, and the Munich Radio Orchestra under Alexander Soddy for a Mozart Gala. She also regularly collaborates with Dublin’s National Symphony Orchestra. Internationally, she has performed in concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center in Washington, and with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, as well as in Vancouver, Savannah, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Lyon and Tokyo. With the Philadelphia Orchestra she sang Mozart’s Requiem under Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
