Soloists

Dame Sarah Connolly

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.

In 2023 she was awarded The King’s Medal for Music, an award given annually to an outstanding individual or group of musicians who have had a major influence on the musical life of the nation.

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 Vienna and Munich State Operas and the Bayreuth, Glyndebourne and Aix-en-Provence Festivals.

Highlights in her 2024/25 season include Auntie in a new production of Peter Grimes for the Welsh National Opera; Dido in a concert performance of Dido & Aeneas in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw; Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius with the BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo and The Music Makers with the CBSO/Sofi Jeannin; Tippett’s A Child of our Time with the Royal Northern Sinfonia/Dinis Sousa; Berlioz’ Les nuits d'été for the Fondazione Teatro Carlo Felice/Riccardo Minasi and Mahler's Symphony no. 2 with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra/Benjamin Zander and the Hallé Orchestra/Kahchun Wong, his Lieder eines fahrenden gesellen with the orchestra of the WNO/Tomas Hanus and a tour of the Rückert-Lieder with Anima Eterna/Pablo Heras Casado. She will also perform songs by Alma Mahler with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland/Mihhail Gerts.

(2024/25 Season)