Niamh O'Sullivan

Irish mezzo-soprano Niamh O’Sullivan, praised for her “bewitchingly beautiful, dark vibrant voice” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), is already an established singer on the continent, both in opera and in concert.

This is the third of three BBC New Generation Artist lunchtime concerts this season, and will be recorded for BBC Radio 3. The scheme helps to support young musicians on the threshold of an international career to reach the next stage of their development. Programme to be announced soon.

Programme
Harty
Come, O Come My Life’s Delight
Lane o’ the Thrushes
Sea Wrack
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Irish/Trad (are Moore/Stevenson) The Last Rose of Summer
Irish/Trad (arr Beecher) The Lark in the Clear Air
Irish/Trad (arr Hughes) She Moved Through the Fair
Hughes The Leprechaun
Irish/Trad (arr Hughes) The Gartan Mother’s Lullaby
Hughes The Stuttering Lovers
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Trimble Green Rain
My Grief on the Sea
Girl’s Song
Kelly The Mother
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Larchet
Padhraic the Fiddler
Love’s Question
The Philosophy of Love
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Moeran
The Roving Dingle Boy
The Tinkers Daughter
French
⁠Gortnamona