This award goes to young female artists performing at Wexford Festival Opera to support their future career endeavours. Building on their long-term sponsorship of WFO, the Danone Young Outstanding Female Award is part of Danone’s much-valued partnership with the Festival which began in 2010. The partnership also sees Danone support a main-stage production each year.
Laura is an Irish Soprano from Kill, Co. Kildare and a graduate of the Royal College of Music, London. She is a member of the 2024/25 group of Wexford Factory, the Festival’s academy for young Irish and Irish based artists. At this year’s Festival she will appear in the Wexford Factory Concert, in the role of Nedda in the Factory Opera Pagliacci, and in the Festival’s Community Opera, The Elixir of Love.
Past Recipients of Danone Young Outstanding Female Award
2023: Hannah O'Brien
2022: Leah Redmond
2021: Jade Phoenix