Tara Erraught: A golden voice in much demand around the world

Tara Erraught is enjoying a blossoming international career. Fresh from her Met debut, she comes home to Ireland to play Susanna in the Marriage of Figaro. Cathy Desmond met the mezzo in Munich

It’s a couple of hours before curtain up on Tara Erraught’s last performance in a run of Cosi fan tutte and the backstage corridors of the Bavarian National Theatre are full of activity as singers, stage hands and make-up artists bustle about getting ready for the evening performance.