Biography
Sorcha Aisling O’Regan is a soprano hailing from Dublin, Ireland. A Masters graduate of TU Dublin Conservatoire of Music and Drama, studying under the tuition of Mairead Buicke, Sorcha made her professional operatic debut in August 2025 performing the role of Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen in Opera in the Open, and Loughcrew Opera Festival. Later that month, she made a further role debut as Galatea in Handel’s Acis and Galatea, also in Dublin City Council’s Opera in the Open.
In the Summer of 2025, Sorcha sang in the Montefeltrio Festival 2025, Italy. There, she studied with Ubaldo Fabbri and performed in the Voci Irlandesi Vibranti Belcanto concert in a celebration of Irish voices and Bel Canto. Now in 2026, Sorcha has crossed the Atlantic into the USA, studying with Jennifer Rowley’s Aria Bootcamp, learning from, and recording with some of the world’s most accomplished singers and pianists.
While in the Conservatoire, Sorcha made her operatic debut as Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare with the TU Dublin Opera Ensemble, and later interpreting the role of Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel in the 2026 opera showcase ‘Within these Walls’, directed by Mira Bartov and designed by Slawek Narwid.
In addition to opera, Sorcha has a wealth of experience in recital performance and Oratorio. She has performed alongside pianist Orlaith Sharkey in a recitals at the 2025 Boyle Arts Festival, the St Ann’s Summer recital series, and most recently in the Sandford Church Summer Recital series in Dublin. She has enjoyed performing alongside Dr Sandra Oman, Simon Morgan, David Wray and Ciara Smith in ‘Another Lunchtime at the Opera’ for Sheldon Nutly Music at the National Concert Hall, Dublin on multiple occasions.
Sorcha will create the roles of René and Elinor of Aquitaine in a new opera, Visionaries in Hungary, December 2026. In May 2026, Sorcha appeared as First Witch in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Birr Festival of Music Opera. She returned to Opera in the Open 2026 for Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, as Diane and Cupid.
Looking forward to May 2027, Sorcha will make her debut as Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, with the Birr Festival Opera.
