Sarah Connolly was made a DBE in the 2017 Birthday Honours, having previously been awarded a CBE in the 2010 New Year Honours. In 2020 she was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society in recognition of her outstanding services to music. 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 Munich State Opera and the Bayreuth, Glyndebourne and Aix-en-Provence festivals. Recent highlights include Fricka in The Ring Cycle at both the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the Teatro Real in Madrid and recitals for the Schubertíada a Vila
Upcoming performances Today Onwards
Past performances 1995 — Yesterday
Oedipus Rex / Antigone, StravinskyMoussa
Opera Forward FestivalJocaste (Jocasta)
View program, cast and crewHope, Faith and Courage – Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mendelssohn
London Symphony OrchestraMezzo
View cast and crewDame Sarah Connolly en Joseph Middleton: van Chausson tot Turnage, BarberTurnageChaussonSchoenberg, ArnoldBergWeill
Het ConcertgebouwVoice + 1 roles
View program, cast and crewDame Sarah Connolly & Joseph Middleton, Mahler
LIFE Liedfest Victoria de los AngelesSoloist
View program, cast and crewGala Centenari Victoria de los Ángeles, Various
Gran Teatre del LiceuMezzo-soprano
View cast and crewDame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano; Hélène Clément viola; Joseph Middleton piano, RubbraBrahmsWallenMahlerBridge, Frank
Wigmore HallVoice + 3 roles
View program, cast and crewOedipus Rex / Antigone, StravinskyMoussa
Opera Forward FestivalJocaste (Jocasta)
View program, cast and crewHope, Faith and Courage – Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mendelssohn
London Symphony OrchestraMezzo
View cast and crewDame Sarah Connolly en Joseph Middleton: van Chausson tot Turnage, BarberTurnageChaussonSchoenberg, ArnoldBergWeill
Het ConcertgebouwVoice + 1 roles
View program, cast and crewDame Sarah Connolly & Joseph Middleton, Mahler
LIFE Liedfest Victoria de los AngelesSoloist
View program, cast and crewGala Centenari Victoria de los Ángeles, Various
Gran Teatre del LiceuMezzo-soprano
View cast and crewTampere Filharmonia: Kausikorttikonsertti, Mahler
Tampere Philharmonic OrchestraContralto
View cast and crewOpening Concert: St Matthew Passion, Bach, J. S.
Edinburgh International FestivalSoloist
View cast and crewClosing Concert: Capriccio, Strauss
Edinburgh International FestivalClairon
View cast and crewIréne Theorin & Dame Sarah Connolly & Julius Drake, Various
LIFE Liedfest Victoria de los AngelesSoprano
View cast and crewConnolly, Anima Aeterna Brugge & Heras-Casado — Mahler i Bruckner, MahlerBruckner
Palau de la Música CatalanaSoloist
View program, cast and crewDame Sarah Connolly Mezzo-soprano; Dame Imogen Cooper Piano, SchubertLoewe, C.SchumannDuparc, H.SchoeckWebernMozart
Wigmore HallVoice + 3 roles
View program, cast and crewSarah Connolly was made a DBE in the 2017 Birthday Honours, having previously been awarded a CBE in the 2010 New Year Honours. In 2020 she was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society in recognition of her outstanding services to music. 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 Munich State Opera and the Bayreuth, Glyndebourne and Aix-en-Provence festivals. Recent highlights include Fricka in The Ring Cycle at both the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the Teatro Real in Madrid and recitals for the Schubertíada a Vila