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NI Opera Chorus

Soprano

Sarah Hoben

Sarah Hoben is a 20-year-old soprano from Newry. She is studying Music and Audio Production at Queen's University, Belfast. Sarah studies singing under the…
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Susie Hunter

Susie has been singing since the age of 8, spending a lot of her early years singing in church choirs. Alongside her career in…
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Alice Johnston

Alice was born in Belfast and studied Primary Education at Stranmillis University. Since leaving university, Alice has pursued a teaching career in tandem with…
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Erin Kennedy

Erin Kennedy is an inspiring soprano from Newtownabbey, with a BA Honours degree in Music from Ulster University. As part of the Ulster University…
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Niamh Lavery

Niamh is a soprano and graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where she held the Mary D Adams scholarship for…
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Ella Linton

Ella Linton is a classically and musical theatre-trained soprano based in Northern Ireland. She made her professional debut with NI Opera in 2024, appearing…
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Lauren McCann

Lauren McCann is a soprano from County Down. She is an alumni member of Flynn Performing Arts. Lauren gained a First-Class Honours in Music…
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Ciara McCartan

Ciara McCartan is a soprano who began her vocal studies at the Royal Irish Academy of Music Dublin before completing a Masters Degree in…
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Carla Murphy

Carla is a classical and musical theatre trained soprano based in Belfast and is trained by Debra Stuart, Ashley Fulton and Alice Johnston. Carla…
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Rebecca Reid

Rebecca Reid is a Belfast-based full lyric soprano studying with Michelle Wegwart, whose career spans the Opéra Bastille, the Bolshoi Theatre, Zurich Opera, and…
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Susan Shepherd

Susan Shepherd is a soprano whose recent engagements include Soprano 1 Soloist in Mozart’s Mass in C Minor (The Cumbria Singers), Belinda (Dido and…
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Petra Wells

Petra Wells is a soprano based in Belfast. She trained under Professor Robert Alderson whilst studying Law at the University of Manchester and continues…
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Cara Rose

Cara-Rose is a 21-year-old soprano from Armagh. She is entering her fourth year at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where she studies under Jane…
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Mezzo Soprano

Sarah Alcorn

Sarah is a mezzo-soprano based in Belfast, but originating from Cheshire. She completed a BMus at Sheffield University. After moving to Northern Ireland, Sarah…
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Kathryn Bingham

Kathryn Bingham is a soprano from Omagh, Northern Ireland. Beginning her second year of Music studies at Queen’s University Belfast, with a focus on…
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Jenny Bourke

Jenny is a music graduate of Queen’s University Belfast and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She has been an Associated Artist with Northern Ireland…
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Olivia Burns

Olivia Burns is a soprano/mezzo-soprano from Newcastle, County Down, with a developing focus on classical and operatic repertoire. She holds Associate Diplomas (ALCM) in…
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Naomi Cantley

Naomi is a mezzo-soprano based in Belfast. She has sung with the chorus of Northern Ireland Opera since 2017. Productions have included Così Fan…
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India Chapman Webb

After graduating with honours in singing performance from the Conservatoire of Music, Paris, in 2009, India went to Rome to do her Masters in…
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Fiona McIlroy

Fiona is a Belfast based mezzo-soprano who graduated from Queen’s University with a BMus (Hons). She was the conductor of two student choirs in…
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Amy Patton

From Belfast, Amy is a mezzo-soprano, in her second year at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (RNCM), under Antonia Sotgiu. She…
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Laura Francisca Shaw

Laura is a drama graduate from the University of Exeter where she obtained first class honours. Since graduating she has performed as Maid Marian…
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Caroline Woods

Caroline Woods is a soprano based in Belfast. She studied Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she studied Voice as her first…
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Tenor

Graeme Hacking

After gaining his PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Cambridge, Graeme went to the Royal Academy of Music in London where he…
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Desmond Havlin

Desmond Havlin is a tenor from Bangor, County Down and is based in Belfast. He studies singing with operatic bass Graeme Danby and has…
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Stephen Rusk

Stephen Rusk is a Northern Irish tenor whose recent engagements include Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Eugene Onegin. He will appear in forthcoming NI…
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Baritone

James Cooper

James is a Northern Irish Bass based in Belfast and performing across the UK who first joined the NI Opera Chorus for their 2018…
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Matthew Jeffrey

Matthew trained with the Lyric Theatre’s Drama Studio whilst studying at Queen’s University Belfast. He performs with choirs and ensembles including St George’s Choir,…
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Paul McQuillan

Paul is a Northern Irish Baritone whose recent engagements include The Barber of Seville, Eugene Onegin, The Goldsmith in The Juniper Tree, The Jailer…
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Events

Chorus

Members of the NI Opera Chorus performing with Diva Opera in their production of La Bohème at the Carlisle Memorial, Belfast in 2026

La Bohème
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