“Campbell Wallace’s voice blazes comfortably in its upper registers, but there’s great lyrical warmth in her scenes…”

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 24-25 season with a role debut as Suor Angelica at English National Opera. She will make her house debut at Washington National Opera as Leonore in Fidelio. Sinéad will sing Tosca in Wiesbaden, as well as a house and role debut as Ellen Orford Peter Grimes at Opera de Lyon. She will return to Tokyo for her role debut as Senta Der Fliegende Holländer.

Sinead’s 23-24 season opened with a house and role debut at Opera de Paris as Elsa Lohengrinwith Piotr Beczala and Nina Stemme, a role she reprised at the 2024 Savonlinna Festival opposite Karita Mattila. She made her critically acclaimed role debut as Salome with Irish National Opera, sang Foreign Princess in Christof Loy’s Rusalka at Palais des Arts, Valencia and Gutrune Götterdämmerung with Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

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.

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.