Soprano scales new heights on home soil

Cork-born soprano Deirdre Moynihan returns to her home city this Friday with a project close to her heart.

She performs a lunchtime concert of Handel’s Nine German Arias, considered some of the most beautiful and profound music that Handel wrote for singers, in UCC’s Honan Chapel.

“The music is something I always wanted to do as a collection, and it’s very rarely performed in Ireland,” Moynihan says. “I approached the Irish Baroque Orchestra manager with a proposal for a four-date tour. All the venues were extremely enthusiastic from the off, it was great to get such encouraging support.”