Sharon Carty is an alumna of the RIAM Dublin, MDW Vienna, and the Oper Frankfurt Opernstudio programme. Her opera repertoire includes many of the important roles for lyric coloratura mezzo-soprano including Dorabella, Dido, Orfeo, Hänsel, Ruggiero and Sesto as well as premiering a number of new opera works in Ireland, Germany and Italy.

Recent opera performances have seen her at Irish National Opera, Oper Frankfurt, Wexford Festival Opera, the Festival di due mondi, Spoleto, and Blackwater Valley Opera.

Recordings include The Mountebanks with the BBC Concert Orchestra, and La Traviata on DVD with the NDR Radiophilhamonie. A disc of Schubert songs was released in May 2020 with Jonathan Ware. From September 2025 she will be the Artistic Director of Sligo Baroque Music Festival in the west of Ireland.