Paula Murrihy: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia
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{{short description|Irish operatic mezzo-soprano}}
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{{Use Irish English|date=June 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Paula Murrihy
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| occupation = Operatic [[mezzo-soprano]]
| organizations = [[FrankfurtOper OperaFrankfurt]]
| awards = Anny Schlemm Prize
| website = {{website|paulamurrihy.com/Intro.html|Official website}}
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'''Paula Murrihy''' is an [[Irish people|Irish]] operatic [[mezzo-soprano]] who has made an international career. A member of the [[Oper Frankfurt Opera]], she has appeared also in Europe and the US, including the [[Metropolitan Opera]] and the [[Santa Fe Opera]].
== Career ==
Born in [[Tralee]], [[County Kerry]],<ref name="u122">{{cite web | last=Dwyer | first=Ciara | title=Opera singer Paula Murrihy: ‘My husband is on the only reason I can have this career’ | website=Irish Independent | date=5 February 2023 | url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/theatre-arts/opera-singer-paula-murrihy-my-husband-is-on-the-only-reason-i-can-have-this-career/42326330.html | access-date=18 September 2024}}</ref> Murrihy first studied at the DIT[[Dublin Institute of Technology]] Conservatory of Music and Drama in Dublin, graduating with a Bachelor in Music. She studied further at the [[New England Conservatory]]. She took part in the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme and the opera studio of the [[Santa Fe Opera]].<ref name="SCO" /> She also studied on a scholarship of the [[San Francisco Opera]] in the [[Merola Opera Program]].<ref name="Frankfurt" /> She participated in [[Tanglewood]] in the 2003 Vocal Fellowship Program, appearing in the premiere of [[Osvaldo Golijov]]'s opera ''Ainadama[[Ainadamar]]'', which she then also performed at [[Disney Hall]] with the [[Los Angeles Philharmonic]].<ref name="Operissimo" />
Murrihy joined the ensemble of the [[FrankfurtOper OperaFrankfurt]] in 2009, where she performed the title roles of Bizet's ''[[Carmen]]''<ref name="Frankfurt" /> and ''[[Der Rosenkavalier]]'' by Richard Strauss.<ref name="Lange" /> Other roles there have included Polissena in Handel's ''[[Radamisto (Handel)|Radamisto]]'', the Second Lady in Mozart's ''[[The Magic Flute|Die Zauberflöte]]'' and Blanche in Prokofiev's ''[[The Gambler (Prokofiev)|Der Spieler]]''.<ref name="Frankfurt" /> Title roles have included Purcell's [[Dido and Aeneas|Dido]], Antonio Cesti's [[L'Orontea]], Humperdinck's [[Hänsel und Gretel (opera)|Hänsel]], and [[Arthur Honegger|Honegger]]'s Judith.<ref name="Frankfurt" /> She performed the role of Kreusa in the German premiere of Aribert Reimann's ''[[Medea (Reimann)|Medea]]'' in 2010, alongside [[Claudia Barainsky]] in the title role, recorded live.<ref name="Prestoclassical" />
She made her debut at the [[Metropolitan Opera]] in New York City in 2017 as Stephano in Gounod's ''[[Roméo et Juliette]]''<ref name="MET" /> and appeared at the [[Santa Fe Opera]] as Prinz Orlowsky in ''[[Die Fledermaus]]'' and as Ruggiero in Handel's ''[[Alcina]]''. She 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 ''[[Così fan tutte]]''.<ref name="Frankfurt" />
In concert, she has performed ''[[Lied]]er'' at the [[Aldeburgh Festival]], the [[Wexford Festival]] and at New York's [[Carnegie Hall]], among others. She performed Bach's ''[[St Matthew Passion]]'' with the [[Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment]], and Hindemith's orchestrated song cycle ''[[Das Marienleben]]'' with the {{ill|Real Filharmonía de Galicia|es|Real Filharmonia de Galicia}}.<ref name="Frankfurt" /> On 12 January 2012, she participated in the premiere of John Harbison's [[Symphony No. 6 (Harbison)|Symphony No. 6]], a commission of the [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]] conducted by [[David Zinman]]. She took part in a 2017 recital with songs for voice, viola and piano in the ''[[hr-Sendesaal|Sendesaal]]'' of the [[Hessischer Rundfunk]] in Frankfurt, singing [[Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano|the two songs by Johannes Brahms]] and rarely performed works by [[Adolf Busch]] and [[Siegmund von Hausegger]].<ref name="hr" />
Murrihy was awarded the [[Anny Schlemm]] Prize for young female singers in 2011.<ref name="Frankfurt" /><ref name="Neu-Isenburg" />
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| first = Joachim
| url = https://www.nmz.de/online/die-verborgenen-dunklen-seiten-der-melancholie-bei-claus-guth-wird-der-rosenkavalier-zu-einem
| title = Die verborgenen, dunklen Seiten der Melancholie – Bei Claus Guth wird der „Rosenkavalier“"Rosenkavalier" zu einem dunkel funkelnden Schmuckstück
| publisher = Neue[[neue Musikzeitungmusikzeitung]]
| date = 25 May 2015
| language = German
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| url = http://www.oper-frankfurt.de/de/ensemble-gaeste-teams/ensemble/?detail=66
| title = Paula Murrihy / Mezzosoprano
| publisher = [[FrankfurtOper OperaFrankfurt]]
| language = German
| accessdate = 6 July 2017
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<ref name="MET">{{cite web
| url = https://www.metopera.org/Discoverdiscover/Artistsartists/MezzoSopranosmezzo-soprano/Paulapaula-Murrihymurrihy/
| title = Paula Murrihy
| publisher = [[Metropolitan Opera]]
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<ref name="hr">{{cite web
| url = http://www.hr.de/presse/orchester/hr-sinfonieorchester/2017/kammerkonzert-mit-musikern-des-hr-sinfonieorchesters,kammerkonzert_saitentastenstimme-100.html
| title = Pressemeldung: Kammerkonzert im hr-Sendesaal / Saiten – Tasten – Stimme
| date = 7 April 2017
| publisher = [[Hessischer Rundfunk|HR]]
| language = German
| accessdate = 13 July 2017
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170923102015/http://www.hr.de/presse/orchester/hr-sinfonieorchester/2017/kammerkonzert-mit-musikern-des-hr-sinfonieorchesters,kammerkonzert_saitentastenstimme-100.html
| archive-date = 23 September 2017
| url-status = dead
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== Further reading ==
* {{cite web | last=Fuhrmann | first=Wolfgang | title=Wie Barry Kosky an der Frankfurter Oper mit Hercules begeistert | website=[[FAZ.NET]] | date=2 May 2023 | url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buehne-und-konzert/wie-barry-kosky-an-der-frankfurter-oper-mit-hercules-begeistert-18861049.html | language=de | access-date=19 September 2024}}
* {{cite web | last=Sternburg | first=Judith von | title=Liederabend von Paula Murrihy – Mit der Goldwaage | website=[[Frankfurter Rundschau]] |date=27 September 2023 | url=https://www.fr.de/kultur/musik/liederabend-von-paula-murrihy-mit-der-goldwaage-92546509.html | language=de | access-date=19 September 2024}}
* {{cite web | last=Brembeck | first=Reinhard J. | title=Salzburger Festspiele: Jubel für "Idomeneo" | website=Süddeutsche.de | date=28 July 2019 | url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/salzburger-festspiele-mozart-idomeneo-1.4542502 | language=de | access-date=19 September 2024}}
== External links ==
* {{official|http://www.paulamurrihy.com/Intro.html}}
* [http://operabase.com/a/Paula_Murrihy/13790 Paula Murrihy] Operabase.com
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170919114153/http://www.finalnotemagazine.com/from-kerry-to-the-met-paula-murrihy/ From Kerry to The Met: Paula Murrihy] (interview) ''Final Note Magazine'', 22 March 2017
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[[Category:Irish mezzo-sopranos]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:20th21st-century Irish women opera singers]]
[[Category:21st-centuryNew operaEngland singersConservatory alumni]]
[[Category:Alumni of Dublin Institute of Technology]]
[[Category:Musicians from County Kerry]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]