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Critics Rave Over Royal Opera House Debut
January 2023
In a breathtakingly disciplined Royal Opera debut soprano Amy Ní Fhearraigh… initially covered the role in Least Like the Other, and now owns it. How impressive, within weeks of 2023, to see so totally finessed a performance from a young rising star. The Arts Desk - David Nice
Amy Ní Fhearraigh delivers a tour de force, sometimes locked onto a single note, other times hurling through the registers. Culture Whisper - Claudia Pritchard
Amy Ní Fhearraigh who plays both Rose and Rosemary is on stage throughout the 70-minute production. Her brilliant vocals and intensely convincing stage presence put flesh on the narrative bones of this tragedy. London Unattached - Fiona Maclean
As Rosemary Kennedy, Amy Ní Fhearraigh delivers a performance that is pitch perfect. She meets the vocal acrobatic challenges head on - often required to deliver lines at the extremes of her range, and sometimes through a loudhailer - she brings the character’s harrowing experiences to life. Music OMH - Keith McDonnell
Vocally, the brunt of the performance is carried high on the shoulders of soprano Amy Ní Fhearraigh, who does far more than merely represent Rosemary: her performance is a tour de force. The Stage - George Hall
is depicted by a singer (the hugely impressive Amy Ní Fhearraigh, playing Rosemary) The Times - Richard Morrison
Soprano Amy Ní Fhearraigh is mostly employed as Rosemary, excellent in using both voice and body to paint the portrait of a girl who is adorable, loving of dance and swimming, not at all smart academically… Ní Fhearraigh is just as virtuosic in singing Rosemary’s descent into mental illness. Bachtrack - David Larkin
William Tell Available Now on OperaVision
January 2023
From January 13th the incredible production of William Tell by Irish National Opera will be available to watch FREE for six months. Amy Ní Fhearraigh recevied high praise by critics in the role of Jemmy where Andrew Larkin of Bachtrack stated that, "Amy Ní Fhearraigh as Jemmy, Tell's son, was quite the show-stealer both in her acting and her vocal agility."
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Royal Opera House Debut Announced
January 2023
As part of their 2022/23 season, Amy will be making her London and ROH debut with Irish National Opera in their critically acclaimed production of 'Least Like the Other: The Search for Rosemary Kennedy' in January 2023.
With the continued calm of Covid-19 this production sees the welcome return of live orchestra over four performances in The Linbury Theatre.
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Role Debut as Jemmy in Guillaume Tell
November 2022
This November Amy makes both her role and trouser-role debut as Jemmy, the son of William Tell in Rossini's mammoth opera 'Guillaume Tell'.
With a star studded cast including Met Opera's Brett Polegato, it promises to be an unmissable series of performances.
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Role Debut as Queen Elisabeth
June 2022
With great success Amy has made her role debut in Irish National Opera's new production of 'Maria Stuarda' starring opposite Irish superstar mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught.
Alan Neilson of Opera Wire wrote of her performance,
"Ní Fhearraigh’s Elisabetta was a splendidly drawn character. She was aggressive, regal, jealous, and easily provoked, but there was always an underlying sense of irony, magnified by her costumes, which emphasized the fact that Elisabetta was always aware she was playing a role. In her first meeting with Maria, her horse riding attire with its black leather latex trousers, red leather gloves, and whip were very much suggestive of a dominatrix, which Ní Fhearaigh successfully played up to the full, yet without ever crossing over into farce. Her gestures and bold facial expressions were wonderfully managed, and the power relationships she established with the other characters were convincing. Likewise, she produced an equally impressive singing performance. Recitatives were confidently and clearly articulated, with well-placed emotional accents and flashes of color, which successfully fleshed out her character. She attacked her arias and the ensemble scenes with real energy, making full use of her versatile and powerful voice which soared effortlessly above the orchestra and chorus, in what were convincing and expressively fine performances."
Read the full review via the link below.
Concert Tour with Ulster Touring Opera
February 2022
Amy joins the newly established Ulster Touring Opera in their first opera gala tour, 'A Night at the Opera', visiting seven venues across Northern Ireland from the 5th - 20th of February.
Hosted by BBC Radio Ulster presenter Marie-Louise Muir, Amy will perform alongside three of the island's brightest stars singing some of opera's beloved arias and ensembles from Mozart to Puccini to Strauss.
During this concert Amy will also be premiering a brand new 5 minute opera short composed by award-winning Belfast composer, Brian Irvine ahead of it's official public release later this Spring.
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'Elsewhere' Opera to be Performed in The Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Elsewhere
November 2021
Amy will be performing the role of Davnet in Michael Gallan's contemporary opera, 'Elsewhere' with French ensemble Miroirs Étendus in The Abbey Theatre, Dublin, this November.
Shortlisted for the FEDORA Opera Prize 2021, Elsewhere is based on the story of the world’s first Soviet commune outside the USSR, which existed for eleven days in the lunatic asylum of Monaghan town in Ireland in 1919. In a bid to win more humane working conditions, the staff of Monaghan Asylum barricaded the gates and declared their independence, revolutionising asylum care in the process. In a colourful and groundbreaking new opera, historical events unfold through the visions of a patient named Celine, who despite the passage of time remains “locked in” to the moment of the Soviet.
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A Return to the Stage
Least Like the Other, Searching for Rosemary.
September 2021
For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic Amy will be returning to the stage for a series of performances with Irish National Opera in their critically acclaimed 'Least Like the Other - Searcing for Rosemary.' This Five Star reviewed work was created by Brian Irvine and Netia Jones, and the upcoming performances will be the world premiere of the new version in 16-Track surround sound and pre-recorded orchestra.
Tickets available now!
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Selected to participate in
The Queen Sonja International Music Competition
August, 2021
Out of 500+ applicants Amy has been selected to represent Ireland in this year's Queen Sonja International Music Competition, Norway. She will perform alongside 39 other successful competitors hailing from all corners of the globe in the internationally acclaimed competition for a panel of industry professionals.
This marks the third prevalent international competition this year that Amy has been successfully invited to partake in.
2021/22 Role Debut!
June, 2022
With the announcement of the upcoming 2021/22 Season Amy is overjoyed to be making her role debut as Elisabetta in Irish National Opera's brand new production of Maria Stuarda by Gaetano Donizetti. Amy will sing the role for two of the performances opposite Irish Mezzo superstar, Tara Erraught, in what promises to be an epic telling of the historic tale.
Tickets on sale soon!
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Semifinalist in the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition
June 2021
After being accepted as a participant in the 39th Belvedere Singing Competition 2021, taking place in the beautiful city of Erfurt, Germany, Amy successfully progressed to the semifinals of the contest.
Out of 1000+ applicants from the past two years, she is in the top 48 singers selected by the competition.
Bio
2022-23 Season
Rossini, Guillaume Tell (Irish National Opera/Nouvelle Opéra Fribourg)
Brian Irvine/Netia Jones, Least Like The Other (INO/ROH Linbury Theatre)
Michael Gallen, Elsewhere (Straymaker Productions - International Tour)
Irish soprano Amy Ní Fhearraigh is an alumna of the Irish National Opera Studio 2018-19 and is
currently based in Hannover, Germany. She is under the tutelage of Dutch soprano Hanneke de
Wit. She recently made her role debut as Elisabetta in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda with Irish
National Opera. She performed the role of Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel in an
Irish National Opera production which was awarded Best Opera in the 2020-2021 Irish Times
Theatre Awards. Other operatic roles include Davnet in the world premiere of Michael Gallen’s
Elsewhere - a production which was shortlisted for the FEDORA Prize for Opera 2021,
Rosemary in Brian Irvine and Netia Jones’s Least Like the Other - a role which she will return
to in January 2023 in the Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre, Papagena in Mozart’s The Magic
Flute, and Barbarina in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (all Irish National Opera), Mrs Julian in
Britten’s Owen Wingrave (Opera Collective Ireland), Frasquita in Bizet’s Carmen (Lyric Opera
Productions), Suor Genovieffa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica (Dublin Operatic Society), the title
role in Handel’s Susanna and Drusilla in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (DIT Opera
Ensemble), and Lucinde in Gluck’s Armide (The Yorke Trust Operatic Society). She has also
covered roles for INO — Pamina in The Magic Flute, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Hannah
in Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s The Second Violinist, and has covered Micaëla for Lyric
Opera Productions.