From Ireland, Paul McNamara is the Artistic Leader of the Dutch National Opera Academy – the collaborative masters programme in opera performance of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and the Royal Conservatoire The Hague.
The tenor has appeared in opera houses throughout Germany and Austria performing roles such as Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Erik, Tristan and Parsifal, Herodes in Salome and Vasco da Gama in Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine; his broad repertoire also includes work by Monteverdi, Mozart, Weber, Tschaikowsky, Janáček, Leoncavallo, Zemlinsky, Berg, Britten, Adams and many others. He has been heard at major venues including Venice’s Teatro La Fenice, Teatr Wielki – the Polish National Opera in Warsaw, the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw.
MIME
with Clarry Bartha Artistic Director – DEBUT Competition (2022)
An alumnus of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Paul McNamara is an honours graduate of the University College Cork, the Cork School of Music and the Royal College of Music London.
He is a casting consultant for the Stichting Omroep Muziek (Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir) and Opera Adviser to the Arts Council of Ireland (An Chomhairle Ealaíon).
Much demand as a private teacher, career consultant and juror in international singing competitions, in addition to returning to the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, 2024 will see him give masterclasses throughout The Netherlands as well as at the Dramatic Voices Programme in Berlin, and working with the singers of the Oberösterreichische Opernstudio in Linz.
In 2025 he will join the faculty of the Opera Nova Project, a Vocal Programme which aims to provide a holistic, high level of musical education for classical voice students in Malta.
TANNHÄUSER
Paul McNamara’s engagements in the season 2024/25 include his debut at the Berliner Staatsoper as well as his return to the Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbücken and the Opéra Royal de Versailles as Mime in Wagners “Siegfried”.
HERODES
