Belfast-born baritone Malachy Frame was a Rising Star of the Enlightenment with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for 2023-25, and was Northern Ireland Opera's 'Voice of 2016,' having won the competition at the company's annual Festival of Voice.

Recent operatic roles have included a debut at English National Opera in Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, Dandini in Rossini’s La Cenerentola, Sprecher in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Figaro and Fiorello in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Figaro in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Marcello and Schaunard in Puccini's La Bohème, Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, March Hare/White Knight in Todd’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Slook in Rossini's La Cambiale di Matrimonio, Leporello and Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Count Ceprano in Verdi’s Rigoletto, and Aeneas in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. 

As a concert soloist, recent performances have included Bach at the Wigmore Hall with the Gabrieli Consort and Solomon’s Know, Bach’s St John Passion with the Monteverdi Choir in Barcelona, London and Budapest, three performances at the 2025 Three Choirs Festival in Hereford Cathedral, Xiaogang Ye’s The Song of the Earth with Haydnorchester von Bozen und Trient in Toblach, Purcell’s King Arthur in the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, Bach’s St John Passion at the Barbican, Bach’s Easter Oratorio in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Haydn’s Creation Britten's War Requiem, Vaughan-Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, and Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast. 

Highlights of the next few months include Horatio and Gravedigger in Thomas’Hamlet at Cadogan Hall for Chelsea Opera Group, a return to the Wigmore Hall with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen, a Christmas tour with the Gabrieli Consort, Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Dunedin Consort, and more Bach with the OAE and the Oxford Philharmonic.

Malachy is also artistic director of Belfast-based early music ensemble Sestina. Highlights of this season include directing Monteverdi’s Vespers 1610, and directing and singing in programmes of madrigals by Gesualdo, Strozzi and Monteverdi, as well as overseeing the ensemble’s Next Generation Artists scheme.