“Campbell Wallace’s voice blazes comfortably in its upper registers, but there’s great lyrical warmth in her scenes…”
TIM ASHLEY, THE GUARDIAN
TOSCA – ENO
Olivier Award nominated dramatic soprano Sinéad Campbell Wallace is one of the most exciting performers on the operatic stage today. Celebrated for her “impressive vocal clarity and depth of emotion”, Sinéad has been hailed “A name to remember…this quality is a real find” and “the revelation of the evening”.
Sinéad opens her 2023/24 season with a house and role debut at Opera de Paris as Elsa in Lohengrin with Piotr Beczala and Nina Stemme, a role she will reprise at the 2024 Savonlinna Opera Festival opposite Karita Mattila. As well as her role debut as Salome with Irish National Opera, Sinéad will sing Foreign Princess in Christof Loy’s critically acclaimed production of Rusalka at Palais des Arts, Valencia, Gutrüne with Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and Leonore Fidelio at Opera Dijon.
Future plans include house debuts at Washington Opera, Opera de Rouen and Welsh National Opera.
Sinéad’s 2022-23 season opened with a triumphant return to English National Opera in the title role Tosca for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award for outstanding achievement in opera. Other season highlights include her house debuts at the Bayerische Staatsoper as Aufseherin Elektra and at Canadian Opera as Tosca as well as concert performances of Chrysothemis Elektra with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra cond. Jonathan Nott.
In the 2021-22 season, Sinéad enjoyed a hugely successful debut at Irish National Opera as Leonore, returning to the house to end her season with equal success as Tosca. Other highlights included Mimi La bohème for ENO and Leonore in a staged production with Insula Orchestra cond. Laurence Equilbey which toured to Brussels’ Bozar, London’s Barbican Centre and La Seine Musicale in Paris. She ended her season with further performances of Leonore cond. Jaap van Zweden at both the Gstaad Menuhin Festival and the Grafenegg Festival with Jonas Kaufmann singing Florestan.
In 2020 Sinéad made her Salzburg Festival debut as Vierte Magd Elektra conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, a role she was due to reprise in the 2020-21 season in Madrid and London with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen but which was cancelled due to the COVID pandemic. Also cancelled was her appearance as Helmwige Die Walküre at the Coliseum for English National Opera. The season did, however, see Sinéad perform Andrew Hamilton’s short opera Erth upon Erth as part of Irish National Opera’s 20 Shorts of Opera project, as well as performing Beethoven’s Ah! Perfido with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and returning to the Salzburg Festival as Aufseherin Elektra.
Sinéad was a member of the ensemble of the Theater Regensburg for the 2018/19 season, where her roles included Isabella Una Cosa Rara, Agathe Der Freischütz and Mary Lloyd Die Herzogin von Chicago. She returned to Theater Regensburg as a guest in the 2019-20 season in the title role of Tosca. Other engagements that season included Leonore for the Lyric Opera Dublin, Zelika The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan for the Wexford Festival and Tosca for Scottish Opera.
Earlier in her career, Sinéad worked extensively with Christian Curnyn and the Classical Opera Company, in roles including Oriana Amadigi, Galatea Acis and Galatea, Angelica Orlando, Drusilla Poppea, Alcina, Flavia Eliogaballo and Hypsipyle Giasone. She has also collaborated with Vladimir Jurowski, Martyn Brabbins, David Parry, John Fulljames, Ian Page, Jonathan Cohen, David Fielding, Annilese Miskimmon, Olivia Fuchs, Netia Jones, Neil Bartlett, Paulo Arrivabene and David Agler among others.
Other opera appearances have included Garsington Opera as Anne Truelove The Rake’s Progress, Grange Park as Giulietta I capuleti e I montecchi and Flavia Eliogabalo, the Aldeburgh Festival as Anne Truelove and Wexford Festival Opera as Inez Die drei Pintos, Monica The Medium, Princess Transformations and Antonia Le Contes d’Hoffmann. She has also sung numerous roles in Dublin, including La Contessa, Donna Elvira, Alcina, Mimi, Musetta, Micaela and Violetta.
On the concert platform, Sinéad has joined the RTÉ Concert Orchestra for Rossini Stabat Mater and for excerpts from La Forza del Destino and Otello in a Verdi Prom, performed works by R. Strauss, Beethoven and a live radio broadcast of Puccini arias with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, and has appeared in recital at Wigmore Hall.
Sinéad Campbell Wallace is a graduate of the Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama, the National Opera Studio and the Britten-Pears young artist programme.
