Paula Murrihy was awarded the first Anny Schlemm Prize in 2010. Earlier on in Oper Frankfurt's 2011/12 season she enjoyed great success with the role of Lazuli (role debut) in Chabrier’s L’Étoile and will sing another role for the first time in the summer: Baba the Turk in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, both new productions. This Irish mezzo-soprano appeared in Frankfurt as a guest artist (singing roles including Tebaldo in Don Carlo and Flora in La Traviata) and joined the Ensemble after a year in the Opera Studio. Last season she enjoyed great success with Kreusa in the first performances in Germany of Reimann’s Medea and Dido in a new production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Other roles in Frankfurt have included Medoro (Orlando furioso), Maddalena (Die Reise nach Reims/Il viaggio a Reims), 2nd Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Clotilde (Norma, in concert), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Scipio (Glanert’s Caligula) Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) and Annio (La clemenza di Tito). Before coming to Frankfurt Paula Murrihy was a member of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, where she took part in the world premiere of Pasatieri’s Hotel Casablanca. Places where she has given reictals include the Aldeburgh Festival and the Carnegie Hall in New York, as part of a series of Marilyn Horne Foundation Masterclasses. Guest engagements have included performances at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Mercédès in Carmen and Tebaldo Don Carlo), in Santa Fe (Die Zauberflöte), Boston (Ino in Semele) and Dido at the Lugo Opera Festival and in Bologna. In February 2012 she goes to Toulouse for La clemenza di Tito.