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Born in Galway, Gerard O’Connor read Music at University College, Cork, and furthered his studies at the National Opera Studio. He has sung with companies including English National Opera, Opera Ireland, Opera North, Castleward Opera, Chelsea Opera Group, Garsington Opera, Longborough Festival Opera, Lyric Opera, Dublin, Opera Holland Park, OTC, Dublin, Singapore Lyric Opera, Stanley Hall Opera and the Edinburgh and Wexford Festivals.

His repertoire has includedPriam The Trojans, Abbott Curlew River, Snug A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dulcamara L’elisir d’amore,, Raimondo Lucia di Lammermoor, Zuniga Carmen, Mephistopheles Faust, George Benton Dead Man Walking, Dikoi Katya Kabanova, Baron Mirko Zeta Die lustige Witwe, Cieco Iris, Sarastro Die Zauberflöte, Varlaam Boris Godunov, Don Basilio Il barbiere di Siviglia, Alidoro La cenerentola, Boris Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Colline La bohème, Frank Die Fledermaus, Gremin Eugene Onegin, Croucher The Silver Tassie, The Mayor Cherevichki, Sparafucile Rigoletto, Fafner Das Rheingold / Siegfried, Reinmar Tannhäuser, King Marke Tristan und Isolde and Hunding Die Walküre.

Current engagements include Bottom A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Orlik Mazeppa for Opera Ireland.

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