ABOUT
Sarah started out singing by running wild outside on the Indiana farm where they grew up, hollering top 100 country hits at the wide midwestern sky. Although a Hoosier at heart, Sarah now lives in Houston and has called the Gulf Coast home for the past decade.
Hailed as “a musical and theatrical joy” for their performances onstage, Sarah treasures their opportunity to sing for a living on opera stages in every part of the US (The Gazette, 2023). Up next, you can catch Sarah as Carmen in Charlottesville Opera’s Cover Cast Performance of Bizet’s Carmen in June 2025. The following August, Sarah is thrilled to debut the role of Rosina in Il Barbiere of Siviglia with Park City Opera in Utah.
During the 2024-25 Season, Sarah completed a Young Artist Residency with Opera Memphis. Equally comfortable in a forlorn pantsrole or as a dramatic heroine, Sarah had the opportunity in Memphis to perform as Endimione in Cavalli’s La Calisto for the National Opera America Conference, as Mercédès in Carmen (covering the title role), and as the solo performer in Gregg Kallor’s new chamber opera The Tell-Tale Heart. Sarah’s prior Young Artist experience includes two seasons at Central City Opera as an Apprentice Artist where they performed Gertrude in Roméo et Juliette as well as covered Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus.
In concert repertoire, Sarah has just performed her first Mozart Requiem as the Mezzo Soloist with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra at the baton of Maestro Robert Moody. Sarah is also intimately connected with the chamber music scene in Houston where they have performed Bach’s Cantatas BWV 131 and BWV 80 with Mercury Chamber Orchestra, as the mezzo-soprano soloist in a fully-staged modern interpretation of J.S. Bach’s “Ich habe genug” (BWV 82) with Ars Lyrica Houston, and as the First Witch (Dido cover) in Dido and Aeneas also with Ars Lyrica Houston in collaboration with the New York Baroque Dance Company.
Over the first few years of their career, Sarah has received numerous awards from acclaimed vocal competitions. Most recently, Sarah was grateful to win 2nd Prize in the Dallas Opera Biennial Vocal Competition as well as 2nd Prize in the American Council for Polish Culture Vocal Competition for Sarah’s performance of Szymanowski art song. Other recent awards include Houston District Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and 2nd Place in both the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Houston’s Career Grant Competition and the San Antonio Tuesday Musical Club’s Young Artist Competition.
Sarah completed their Masters of Music in Vocal Performance in 2021 at the University of Houston where they had the opportunity to perform many leading operatic roles, including the title role in La Cenerentola, Nancy in Albert Herring, Dinah in Trouble and Tahiti, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Venus in Orpheus in the Underworld.
Born to a Francophone mother who grew up in Angers, Sarah was motivated by family heritage to complete their Bachelor’s of Arts in French and Literature at Loyola University of New Orleans in 2015. Having spent 3 months studying in Rennes, France followed by another 5 months in Dakar, Senegal in 2017, Sarah is confident in varied French dialects both in speaking and singing. Sarah now carries this passion for language and critical analysis to every libretto and poem they have the good fortune to perform.
When not listening through the sizzle of old opera recordings and attending live theater of every kind, Sarah can be found knitting and sewing for hours on end, falling off of climbing routes, and (only partially) following new recipes in their kitchen.