Today I am talking to soprano Roisín Walsh who is both a professional singer as well as an agent nurse. Roisín discusses how she unwittingly transfers shared skills between her work as a nurse and as a singer, she highlights the flexibility of freelance contracts which have a similar traits in both fields, and reminisces about the importance of her family’s support of her career.
Roisín is an Irish soprano who began her training with Olive Cowpar in Limerick, Ireland before studying at Guildhall School of Music & Drama and subsequently at the National Opera Studio, London. She has worked with companies such as Glyndebourne, Scottish Opera and the Grange Festival to name but a few.
Roisín has covered the roles of Micaela Carmen, Tina Flight, Tatyana Eugene Onegin and most recently Helena Midsummer Night’s Dream with Scottish Opera.
Most recently, Roisín played First Bridesmaid and covered the role of Barbarina Le Nozze di Figaro with the Grange Festival including a masterclass series with Ann Murray DBE. She then performed the role of First Lady The Magic Flute with Waterperry Opera Festival. Following on from that, Roisín joined Glydebourne Tour where she played the role of the page/la Duchessa Rigoletto and covered the role of the Siren Rinaldo.
Roisin is very keen to explore contemporary music and recently performed a new commission by Irish composer Fiona Linnane “Songs of the Meterologist” as part of a site specific production “Abandoned” at the Old Sailors Home, Limerick. Subsequently, Opera Workshop has commisioned these songs to be recorded and filmed in a very unique virtual project to be released at the end of 2020. Roisín has also collaborated with Opera Workshop on a very special project entitled No. 2 Pery Square. This should have been performed to a live audience in early 2020 but was reimagined creatively for the new world of performance we are in today and was released as part of Culture Night 2020.
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