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Praised for his “silken tenor” by Opera News, tenor Eric Finbarr Carey enters the 2025–2026 season with a series of major international debuts and return engagements. This season, he appears at La Scala, Elbphilharmonie, Wiener Konzerthaus, Rudolfinum, the Ojai Music Festival, and with the Gewandhausorchester. He performs Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with the Czech Philharmonic under Semyon Bychkov, with the Gewandhausorchester, and at Ojai under Esa-Pekka Salonen.

A particular highlight of the upcoming season is Carey’s portrayal of the Evangelist in three of Bach’s major works: the St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, and Christmas Oratorio. Increasingly recognized for his work in Bach and oratorio repertoire, Carey brings these roles to a series of major debuts and return engagements across Europe and the United States. He makes his Irish debut with the National Symphony Orchestra Ireland in Dublin and his Swiss debut with the Tonhalle-Orchester St. Gallen, in addition to appearances with the Bach Collegium Fort Wayne. He also returns to France for his role debut as Peter Quint in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw in a company debut with Opéra de Toulon, and appears in recitals with Carmit Zori, Anna Polonski, and Erika Switzer.

Additional appearances this season included his French debut in a new production of Mozart/Händel’s Der Messias with Opéra de Limoges, Britten’s Les Illuminations with the Handel Society of Dartmouth, and performances as tenor soloist in Messiah, Bach’s Easter Oratorio with Philadelphia Choral Arts Society, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with Jonathan Biss. He continued his recital collaborations with pianist Erika Switzer and returns to the Marlboro Music Festival following his tenure there as tenor-in-residence in summer 2025.

Recent highlights include a celebrated run in the title role of Albert Herring with Opera Baltimore, his Carnegie Hall debut in Mozart’s Requiem and Bach’s Magnificat with the Oratorio Society of New York, appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Doug Balliet’s Beast Fights and Britten’s Canticle V, and performances as Evangelist and tenor in Bach’s St. John Passion with Princeton Pro Musica, Upper Valley Baroque and Bach in Baltimore. He has also appeared in recital with Jonathan Biss and Lydia Brown at Marlboro and collaborated with lutenist Richard Stone in a program of Air de Cour with Tempesta di Mare.

Carey is a prizewinner of the Oratorio Society of New York Competition, the Gerda Lissner Foundation Song Competition, the Sparks & Wiry Cries Art Song Competition, and the 2025 Clermont Auvergne Opéra Competition. He has held residencies at the Marlboro Music Festival, the Tanglewood Music Center, the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, and the Carnegie Hall SongStudio.

Carey is an alumnus of Bard College, Boston University, Peabody Conservatory, and The Johns Hopkins University. He is represented by TACT Artists Management.