{"id":281042,"date":"2026-01-12T15:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/281042\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:48:12","slug":"my-money-covid-exposed-the-fragility-of-the-music-ecosystem-and-gave-me-the-kick-i-needed-to-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/281042\/","title":{"rendered":"My Money: \u2018Covid exposed the fragility of the music ecosystem \u2013 and gave me the kick I needed to save\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nMezzo soprano Sharon Carty\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sharon Carty. Photo: Wolfgang Runkel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3a8c84d6-dc99-49e3-a6dc-e0405d2c096a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sharon Carty. Photo: Wolfgang Runkel<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sharon Carty is a former teacher turned mezzo soprano. Carty, who lives in Celbridge, is a graduate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM), University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and the Oper Frankfurt Young Artists programme, and is an artistic partner to the Irish National Opera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">She\u2019ll be singing Dido\u2019s Lament at \u2018Dido: Remember Me\u2019 in the Classics Now Festival at RIAM Dublin on January 30 and will also perform at the Dublin Bach Cantatas Series at St Ann\u2019s Church on Dawson Street on February 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mezzo soprano Sharon Carty Sharon Carty. Photo: Wolfgang Runkel Sharon Carty is a former teacher turned mezzo soprano.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-281042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115882918336681698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}