From Ireland, Paul McNamara is the Artistic Leader of the Dutch National Opera Academy – the collaborative masters programme in opera performance of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and the Royal Conservatoire The Hague.
The tenor has appeared in opera houses throughout Germany and Austria performing roles such as Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Erik, Tristan, Parsifal, Mime, Herodes in Salome and Vasco da Gama in Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine; his broad repertoire also includes work by Monteverdi, Mozart, Weber, Tschaikowsky, Janáček, Leoncavallo, Zemlinsky, Berg, Britten, Adams and many others. He has been heard at major venues including Venice’s Teatro La Fenice, Teatr Wielki – the Polish National Opera in Warsaw, the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw.
MIME
with Clarry Bartha Artistic Director – DEBUT Competition – 2022.
DEBUT Competition – 2024.
Much demand as a private teacher, career consultant and juror in international singing competitions, Paul McNamara is a casting consultant for the Stichting Omroep Muziek (Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir) and Opera Adviser to the Arts Council of Ireland (An Chomhairle Ealaíon).
In addition to returning to the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, 2025 will see him give masterclasses throughout The Netherlands and at the Dramatic Voices Programme in Berlin, as well as working with the singers of the Opera Nova Project in Malta, a vocal programme which aims to provide a holistic, high level of musical education for classical voice students.
De International Vocal Competition 's-Hertogenbosch (IVC) – 2022.
Paul McNamara will once again be chairman of the jury at DEBUT singing competition in Germany in 2026 and a jury member at theInternational Vocal Competition 's-Hertogenbosch (IVC)
An alumnus of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, he is an honours graduate of the University College Cork, the Cork School of Music and the Royal College of Music London.
TANNHÄUSER
Paul McNamara’s recent engagements have included appearances at the Berliner Staatsoper as well as his return to the Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbücken and the Opéra Royal de Versailles as Mime in Wagners “Siegfried”.
In the season 2025/26 he will make his debut at the Opéra national du Rhin in Korngold’s “Das Wunder der Heliane”.
HERODES
