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.
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.
Much admired for her interpretations and recordings of Mahler’s vocal works, she has sung Das Lied von der Erde, the Rückert-Lieder, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Lieder eines fahrenden gesellen and the Kindertotenlieder with leading orchestras and conductors around the world. Notably, she has performed his Symphony no. 2 with the Philadelphia Orchestra/Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the LSO/Sir Simon Rattle, the LPO/ Vladimir Jurowski and with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under both Manfred Honeck and Christoph von Dohnányi. She has also performed his Symphony no. 3 with the LSO/Bernard Haitink and the Wiener Symphoniker/ Andrés Orozco-Estrada and his Symphony no. 8 with the Philharmonia Orchestra/Lorin Maazel.
Her recital appearances include London, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Geneva, Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Atlanta, Stuttgart; at the Incontri in Terra di Siena La Foce and the Schubertiada Vilabertran and at the Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Edinburgh and Oxford Lieder Festivals. In the 2018/19 season she curated a Residency at Wigmore Hall.