Máire Flavin

Ms. Flavin’s recent and future engagements include Anna Sørensen in the British Premiere of Kevin Puts Silent Night, and her role debut as Hanna Glawari The Merry Widow (Opera North); her Austrian debut as Contessa d’Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro (Salzburger Landestheater); Hannah in the World Premiere of The Second Violinist (Irish National Opera/Dutch National Opera); Contessa d’Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro (Irish National Opera); Opera Highlights Tour (Scottish Opera); Mimi La bohème (Cork International Opera Series); and Mozart Requiem & Once upon a Dream: Celebrating Disney (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra). Previous engagements have seen her perform leading roles with companies including Théâtre des Champs Elysées; Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Glyndebourne on Tour; Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing; Opera North; Welsh National Opera; Irish National Opera; Scottish Opera; Northern Ireland Opera; Opera Collective Ireland; and the Cork Summer International Festival; with conductors such as Mark Wigglesworth, Nathalie Stutzmann, Lothar Koenig, Jac van Steen, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Alan Buribayev, John Wilson, Jonathan Cohen and Christoph Poppen.

On the concert platform she has performed Mahler’s 2nd Symphony, Berlioz Les Nuits d’été, and Viennese Gala Concerts (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra); Mahler’s 8^th Symphony (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Royal Albert Hall); Hamilton Harty’s Children of Lir and Stravinsky’s Pulcinella (RTÉ Concert Orchestra); Mozart Requiem (Orchestra of Welsh National Opera/RTÉ Concert Orchestra/RTÉ Symphony Orchestra); and Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony (Deutsche Philharmonie). An avid performer of song, she has appeared in recital with Simon Lepper, Gary Matthewman, and Nico de Villiers internationally.

An alumna of both the Opera Theatre Company and Britten-Pears Young Artist programmes, she studied at Queens University, Belfast; the RIAM; GSMD Opera Course and the National Opera Studio, London.