After enjoying enormous success with two new roles in 2011/12: Lazuli in Chabrier’s L’Étoile and Baba the Turk in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress Paula Murrihy adds two further roles to her repertoire during Oper Frankfurt’s 2012/13 season: Sesto, in a new production of Giulio Cesare in Egitto and Emilia in Otello. She will also give a recital with Simon Bode on March 19th in the main auditorium. This Irish mezzo-soprano has been a member of the ensemble at Oper Fankfurt since 2009 and was won the 2010 Anny Schlemm Prize. Other roles here in recent seasons have included Kreusa in the first performances in Germany of Reimann’s Medea, La Muse/Nicklausse (Hoffmanns Erzählungen/The Tales of Hoffmann), Tebaldo (Don Carlo), 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 Paula Murrihy came to Frankfurt she 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 sung Lieder include the Aldeburgh Festival and the Carnegie Hall in New York, as part of the Marilyn Horne Foundation Masterclass Series. Recent guest engagements have included performances at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Mercédès in Carmen and Tebaldo in Don Carlo), in Santa Fe (Die Zauberflöte), Dido at the Lugo Opera Festival and in Bologna and, in 2012, La clemenza di Tito in Toulouse. She sings the title role in Arthur Honegger's Judith in Utrecht in the spring of 2013.