Paula Murrihy is an Irish operatic mezzo-soprano who has made an international career.
11 Facts About Paula Murrihy
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Paula Murrihy took part in the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme and the opera studio of the Santa Fe Opera.
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Paula Murrihy studied on a scholarship of the San Francisco Opera in the Merola Opera Program.
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Paula Murrihy participated in Tanglewood in the 2003 Vocal Fellowship Program, appearing in the premiere of Osvaldo Golijov's opera Ainadamar, which she then performed at Disney Hall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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Paula Murrihy joined the ensemble of the Oper Frankfurt in 2009, where she performed the title roles of Bizet's Carmen and Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss.
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Paula Murrihy performed the role of Kreusa in the German premiere of Aribert Reimann's Medea in 2010, alongside Claudia Barainsky in the title role, recorded live.
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Paula Murrihy made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 2017 as Stephano in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette and appeared at the Santa Fe Opera as Prinz Orlowsky in Die Fledermaus and as Ruggiero in Handel's Alcina.
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Paula Murrihy performed at the Konzerthaus Dortmund in a cycle of Mozart operas conducted by Teodor Currentzis, as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and as Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte.
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Paula Murrihy performed Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and Hindemith's orchestrated song cycle Das Marienleben with the Real Filharmonia de Galicia.
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Paula Murrihy took part in a 2017 recital with songs for voice, viola and piano in the Sendesaal of the Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt, singing the two songs by Johannes Brahms and rarely performed works by Adolf Busch and Siegmund von Hausegger.
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Paula Murrihy was awarded the Anny Schlemm Prize for young female singers in 2011.