Sarah Nelson Craft
Mezzo-soprano
www.sarahnelsoncraft.com • Scott Levine Management •
[email protected] • 917.607.1683 OPERA EXPERIENCE Roles: Angelina Giunone Ninetta Angelina Rosina Cori Cherubino Hansel Second Woman Dido Maenad Annio Hermia Ruggiero Nancy Dorabella Charlotte Cendrillon
La Cenerentola (abridged) Agrippina Les vêpres siciliennes La Cenerentola Il barbiere di Siviglia (cover) Beautiful Creatures (Griffith) (reading) Le nozze di Figaro Hansel and Gretel Dido and Aeneas Dido and Aeneas (in concert) The Judgement of Midas (Ince) (reading) La clemenza di Tito A Midsummer Night’s Dream Alcina (scenes) Albert Herring Così fan tutte Werther (scenes) Cendrillon
CONCERT EXPERIENCE Mozart Mass in C ‘Coronation’ Evening of Art Song (Britten, Debussy, Tchaikovsky) Mahler Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen Bach Magnificat Mahler Symphony No. 2 Haydn Lord Nelson Mass Mendelssohn Te Deum in D major Mozart Requiem & Stravinsky Mass Respighi Il tramonto Handel Messiah Bach Mass in B minor Duruflé Requiem Copland In the Beginning Jennifer Griffith The Reed (world premiere) Bach Cantata BWV 82 “Ich habe genug” Tippett A Child of Our Time Bach St. Matthew Passion Mozart Gala Concert
Opera at Florham operamission Caramoor International Music Festival Fargo-Moorhead Opera Music Academy of the West Stage/Time Collaborative New York Lyric Opera Theatre Opera Manhattan Repertory Theatre Macau International Music Festival, China Grace & Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn American Opera Projects dell’Arte Opera Ensemble dell’Arte Opera Ensemble Vertical Player Repertory Opera North University of North Texas Opera New Jersey University of North Texas
American Classical Orchestra, Alice Tully Hall Con Vivo Music, Jersey City, NJ Princeton Pro Musica Amor Artis, New York, NY New Jersey Festival Orchestra Hudson Chorale, Irvington, NY Amor Artis Amor Artis Con Vivo Music National Chorale, Avery Fisher Hall National Chorale, Avery Fisher Hall Fairfield County Chorale West Village Chorale Grace and Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn Con Vivo Music- Bach Festival Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra Fairfield County Chorale/Greenwich Choral Society Dallas Opera Orchestra, Graeme Jenkins, conductor
2014 2014 2013 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010 2010 2010 2009 2009 2008 2008 2006 2006 2007 2004 2015 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2013 2013 2012 2012 2011 2011 2010 2010 2008 2008 2006
AWARDS AND HONORS “The Song Continues: Paris Residency” presented by Carnegie Hall with Marilyn Horne & Martin Katz Opera Columbus Irma M. Cooper International Vocal Competition, Semi-finalist Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, District Winner & Audience Choice
2014 2014 2007
EDUCATION & TRAINING University of North Texas College of Music – M.M. in Vocal Performance Dartmouth College – B.A. with high honors in Italian and Music
2006 2001
Caramoor Bel Canto Young Artist Program Music Academy of the West American Opera Projects/SITI Company training: “Creating the Dramatic Character for Opera” OperaWorks Summer Intensive Program Opera New Jersey Young Artist Program Opera North Young Artist Program Brevard Music Center Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin
2010, 2013 2011 2008-09 2007 2006-07 2006 2005 2001
Coaches & Conductors – Marilyn Horne, Will Crutchfield, Rachelle Jonck, Giovanni Reggioli, Ann Baltz, Audrey Saint-Gil, Lauren Flanigan, Wilson Southerland, Jennifer Peterson Directors – Fabrizio Melano, Mark James Meier, Martha Collins, Ben Spierman, Eli Villanueva, Ron Luchsinger
