As an active performer of opera, recital and concert repertoire, north American born soprano Raquela Sheeran has performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Ms. Sheeran currently is singing with Deutsche Oper Berlin. Among the roles that Ms. Sheeran has been engaged to perform with the company are Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, Anna in Nabucco, Ein junges Mädchen in Moses und Aron, Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte, Erste Magd in Daphne, Amore in Orfeo ed Euridice, Zweites Blumenmädchen in Parsifal, Nimwe and Merryll Bee in the premiere of Wilfried Maria Danner's chamber opera Merlin in Soho, Sophie in Werther, Azema in Semiramide, Elster in the premiere of Paul Hertel and Paul Flieder's children's opera, Elster und Parzival as well as Olympia, Giulietta and Antonia in Opa/er Hoffmann erzählt, a children's version of Les Contes d'Hoffmann.

Other roles in Ms.Sheeran's repertoire include Karolina in Smetana's Two Widows, Marzelline in Fidelio, Yvette/Georgette in La Rondine, Naïade in Ariadne auf Naxos, Serafina in Donizetti's Il Campanello di Notte, and Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail. She has performed with New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, Chautauqua Opera in New York, Central City Opera in Colorado and Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin.

Prior to moving to Germany, Ms. Sheeran completed her training as a young artist at the Juilliard School Opera Center. With the Opera Center, she was featured in their productions of La Cenerentola as Clorinda and in the U.S. premiere of Kurt Weill's operetta, Der Kuhhandel as Juanita.

In New York, Ms. Sheeran has been featured in recitals at the Lincoln Center Library, the 92nd Street Y, Alice Tully Hall, the Harvard Club, the Juilliard School and Chautauqua Institution. As a Piatigorsky Foundation Artist, she performed a recital tour throughout southern Louisiana and will perform another one throughout eastern Texas in January, 2003.

Ms. Sheeran has been the soprano soloist in Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Fauré's Requiem, Shostakovich's Yiddish Folk Songs, Orff's Carmina Burana, Brahms' Requiem and Mozart's Requiem. She has performed at Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria, Il Duomo in Spoleto, Italy as part of Il Festival dei due Mondi, the Mann Auditorium with the Jerusalem Symphony in Tel Aviv and at the Musikhochschule in Leipzig, Germany with the Juilliard Contemporary Ensemble. In December 2002, Ms. Sheeran will have the honor of singing as the soprano soloist in the world premiere of Spanish born composer Lorenzo Palomo's new composition to be written for the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra under the baton of renowned conductor, Jesús López Cobos.

Among the awards Ms. Sheeran has received are the Lotte Lenya Singing Competition/Kurt Weill Foundation for Music Award, the American Berlin Opera Foundation Scholarship, the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Award, the Opera Index Grant and most recently, the Franz-Josef-Weisweiler Stipendium.