Bríd is an ENO Opera Works 2016-2017 participant - which culminated on April 13th 2017 in a showcase performance of Dispatches, devised by the course artists in conjunction with the course directors and conductors. She followed this up with a devised community project Siren Song, an ENO community outreach programme, engaging with the public to learn more about Handel's Partenope, which was playing in the Coliseum, London, at the time.
In 2018, Bríd sang the role of Ericlea in Opera Collective Ireland's The Return of Ulysses, with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, to sell-out houses in the Kilkenny Arts Festival and the Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire. She made her UK début in May 2016 originating the role of Leah in Long Story Short: the Belfast Opera by Neil Martin and Glenn Patterson - a community opera spearheaded by the Belfast Buildings Trust, a site-specific story set in the newly renovated Carlisle Memorial Church, with support from Belfast City Council and NI Opera. Long Story Short performed to full houses and was nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Opera Production in 2017. She followed this with Second Lady in Mozart's The Magic Flute with North Dublin Opera, in a production specially designed for young children.
In 2015 she performed the role of Zita (La Vecchia) in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, and Die Hexe inHumperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel – both as part of the Mezzano Romantica Festival in Italy. She later reprised her role of The Witch in the English version of Hansel and Gretel with North Dublin Opera, doubling with the role of Mother.
Other recent opera work includes chorus for NI Opera’s Turandot, Nancy Tang, 1st Secretary (cover) and chorus member in Wide Open Opera’s 2014 production of Nixon in China, returning to Wide Open Opera twice more that year to sing chorus in their series of street operas Things We Throw Away and the City of Culture commission The Oldest Woman in Limerick, as a section leader, both by Brian Irvine and John McIlduff.
As part of the centenary celebrations for Benjamin Britten, Bríd book-ended 2013 with performances as Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Screw and Mrs. Noye in Noye’s Fludde, while completing her Masters in the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama.
Bríd has also won several prizes in recent years including the Mahler Prize in Feis Ceoil 2018, the TU Dublin Conservatory’s Louis Ely O’Carroll Gold Medal, Ruth Mervyn (Irish Contemporary) and Messiah competitions. She was also in the Britten Ensemble that won the Feis Ceoil Wilson Cup in 2013. She has been a guest soloist with the Dún Laoghaire Choral Society, the Early Music Society, and Dublin Bach Singers as well as premiering the soprano solo of Colm Ó Foghlú’s RTÉ-commissioned Aifreann na nAingeal. Bríd is a member of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra Opera Chorus, Dublin Bach Singers and all-female voice Dulciana.
Bríd also works as a writer and performer in Irish, recently providing libretto for Colm Ó Foghlú’s RTÉ-commissioned Oratóir na Nollag: Ceol Ar Snámh Ón Spéir Anuas, and the English translation Star of Bethlehem: a Christmas Oratorio.
Bríd Ní Ghruagáin graduated from the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama where she studied under Toni Walsh and Mary Scarlett for the Masters in Music (Performance). She is currently studying with countertenor Stephen Wallace and dramatic soprano Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet.
In 2018, Bríd sang the role of Ericlea in Opera Collective Ireland's The Return of Ulysses, with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, to sell-out houses in the Kilkenny Arts Festival and the Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire. She made her UK début in May 2016 originating the role of Leah in Long Story Short: the Belfast Opera by Neil Martin and Glenn Patterson - a community opera spearheaded by the Belfast Buildings Trust, a site-specific story set in the newly renovated Carlisle Memorial Church, with support from Belfast City Council and NI Opera. Long Story Short performed to full houses and was nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Opera Production in 2017. She followed this with Second Lady in Mozart's The Magic Flute with North Dublin Opera, in a production specially designed for young children.
In 2015 she performed the role of Zita (La Vecchia) in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, and Die Hexe inHumperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel – both as part of the Mezzano Romantica Festival in Italy. She later reprised her role of The Witch in the English version of Hansel and Gretel with North Dublin Opera, doubling with the role of Mother.
Other recent opera work includes chorus for NI Opera’s Turandot, Nancy Tang, 1st Secretary (cover) and chorus member in Wide Open Opera’s 2014 production of Nixon in China, returning to Wide Open Opera twice more that year to sing chorus in their series of street operas Things We Throw Away and the City of Culture commission The Oldest Woman in Limerick, as a section leader, both by Brian Irvine and John McIlduff.
As part of the centenary celebrations for Benjamin Britten, Bríd book-ended 2013 with performances as Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Screw and Mrs. Noye in Noye’s Fludde, while completing her Masters in the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama.
Bríd has also won several prizes in recent years including the Mahler Prize in Feis Ceoil 2018, the TU Dublin Conservatory’s Louis Ely O’Carroll Gold Medal, Ruth Mervyn (Irish Contemporary) and Messiah competitions. She was also in the Britten Ensemble that won the Feis Ceoil Wilson Cup in 2013. She has been a guest soloist with the Dún Laoghaire Choral Society, the Early Music Society, and Dublin Bach Singers as well as premiering the soprano solo of Colm Ó Foghlú’s RTÉ-commissioned Aifreann na nAingeal. Bríd is a member of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra Opera Chorus, Dublin Bach Singers and all-female voice Dulciana.
Bríd also works as a writer and performer in Irish, recently providing libretto for Colm Ó Foghlú’s RTÉ-commissioned Oratóir na Nollag: Ceol Ar Snámh Ón Spéir Anuas, and the English translation Star of Bethlehem: a Christmas Oratorio.
Bríd Ní Ghruagáin graduated from the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama where she studied under Toni Walsh and Mary Scarlett for the Masters in Music (Performance). She is currently studying with countertenor Stephen Wallace and dramatic soprano Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet.