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Sarah Beaty, mezzo-soprano, has been hailed as “the model of bel canto clarity and brilliance” by ClevelandClassical. Despite her affinity for bel canto opera and Medieval music, Sarah’s true passion is contemporary opera. In 2021, she made her Long Beach Opera debut in Philip Glass' Les Enfants Terribles, directed by James Darrah. The previous season, she was a soloist in Hindemith's Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen with the LA Philharmoic under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen. Maestro Salonen subsequently invited her to sing with the San Francisco Symphony, but the performance was canceled due to COVID. A favorite at the LA Phil, Sarah sang in their landmark new production of Meredith Monk’s “Atlas,” directed by Yuval Sharon in 2019.
In 2018, Sarah was named an inaugural Company Member of The Industry, Yuval Sharon’s experimental opera company in Los Angeles. She has collaborated with The Industry on multiple world premieres including “Invisible Cities,” “Hopscotch,” “Galileo,” and “Bonnie and Clyde,” as well as “In C” at the Hammer Museum and John Cage’s “Europeras 1 & 2 “ with the LA Phil at Sony Pictures Studio. Other contemporary opera credits include a world premiere as the title role in “Clara,” an opera by Victoria Bond, on the Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival in NYC’s Symphony Space. In 2013 she premiered “Prometheus Bound” with the Center for New Performance at the Getty Villa Amphitheater featuring music by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Ellen Reid. She is a founding member of Blue Streak, a contemporary chamber ensemble based in Cleveland, OH, directed by composer Margaret Brouwer. |
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Also a lover of (very) early music, Sarah co-founded Vocatrix, an LA-based ensemble which brings together medievalists in performances of the music of Hildegard. She recently reprised her role as Castitas in Hildegard’s rarely performed “Ordo Virtutum” with Vocatrix on the Berkeley Early Music Festival, and their performance on the Monday Evening Concert Series was praised in the LA Times by Mark Swed saying it was “sung with blinding luminosity.”
Sarah has been heard as Diana in Cavalli’s Baroque opera “La Calisto.” Other opera roles include Dryad in Ariadne auf Naxos, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Mozart’s Serpetta, Dorabella, Second Lady and Cherubino, Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor, Flora in La Traviata, among others. Sarah has been a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, CityMusic Cleveland Orchestra, Pacific Chorale, the Camerata of LA, National Chorale, and has performed at the Hollywood Bowl, Disney Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, the National Opera Center, and Avery Fisher Hall.
In 2012, she spent 6 months in Macao, China, as a featured opera singer at The Venetian. Sarah is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and is also an accomplished violinist and flutist. In LA she regularly sings with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Pacific Opera Project, and at St. James Episcopal Church. When she’s not performing, Sarah’s other passion is teaching private voice lessons at her studio in Portland.
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Sarah has been heard as Diana in Cavalli’s Baroque opera “La Calisto.” Other opera roles include Dryad in Ariadne auf Naxos, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Mozart’s Serpetta, Dorabella, Second Lady and Cherubino, Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor, Flora in La Traviata, among others. Sarah has been a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, CityMusic Cleveland Orchestra, Pacific Chorale, the Camerata of LA, National Chorale, and has performed at the Hollywood Bowl, Disney Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, the National Opera Center, and Avery Fisher Hall.
In 2012, she spent 6 months in Macao, China, as a featured opera singer at The Venetian. Sarah is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and is also an accomplished violinist and flutist. In LA she regularly sings with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Pacific Opera Project, and at St. James Episcopal Church. When she’s not performing, Sarah’s other passion is teaching private voice lessons at her studio in Portland.
Contact her for a lesson consultation
