Dame SarahConnolly

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Mezzo-Soprano
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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

About Dame Sarah

Sarah Connolly was made a DBE in the 2017 Birthday Honours, having previously been awarded a CBE in the 2010 New Year's Honours. In 2020 she was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society in recognition of her outstanding services to music.

In 2023 she was awarded The King’s Medal for Music, an award given annually to an outstanding individual or group of musicians who have had a major influence on the musical life of the nation.

She has sung at the Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Lucerne, Salzburg and Tanglewood festivals and the BBC Proms where, in 2009, she was a soloist at the Last Night. Opera engagements have taken her around the world from The Metropolitan Opera to the Royal Opera House, the Paris Opera, La Scala Milan, the Vienna and Munich State Operas and the Bayreuth, Glyndebourne and Aix-en-Provence Festivals.

Highlights in her 2024/25 season include Auntie in a new production of Peter Grimes for the Welsh National Opera; Dido in a concert performance of Dido & Aeneas in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw; Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius with the BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo and The Music Makers with the CBSO/Sofi Jeannin; Tippett’s A Child of our Time with the Royal Northern Sinfonia/Dinis Sousa; Berlioz’ Les nuits d'été for the Fondazione Teatro Carlo Felice/Riccardo Minasi and Mahler's Symphony no. 2 with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra/Benjamin Zander and the Hallé Orchestra/Kahchun Wong, his Lieder eines fahrenden gesellen with the orchestra of the WNO/Tomas Hanus and a tour of the Rückert-Lieder with Anima Eterna/Pablo Heras Casado. She will also perform songs by Alma Mahler with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland/Mihhail Gerts.

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Representation

Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

Season Highlights

Oct 2024 - Oct 2024
Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa
Berlioz - Les nuits d'été
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Wigmore Hall
Recital with Imogen Cooper
Dec 2024 - Dec 2024
BBC Symphony Orchestra - Barbican Hall
Elgar - The Dream of Gerontius

Selected Repertoire

MahlerSymphony no. 2   •   Symphony no. 3   •   Symphony no. 8 – Mulier Samaritana

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  • Mendelssohn - Elijah

    Barbican Centre
    Jan 2024
    • When was Elijah last so strongly cast? Dame Sarah Connolly is still the first name on the team-sheet for such works, her mezzo-soprano well able to encompass the designated alto roles with her usual care for the music’s meaning

    • Sarah Connolly was warm and compassionate (except as a deliciously Wicked-Witch-of-the-West Queen).

    • And Sarah Connolly made every word tell in all her notes,

    • Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly brought warm tone, lovely flexibility and a sense of investment in the words to her recitative interventions in Part One, with a dignified account of 'Woe unto them' that really committed to the meaning. In Part Two, her Jezebel was strong and determined, like Finley, she imposed herself without bluster and the dialogue with the chorus fizzed with excitement. The culmination of her performance, however, was a beautifully flowing and movingly understated account of 'O rest in the Lord'.