Sarah Crane

Sarah graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University in 1997 with a Diploma in Opera
Performance. She has been the recipient of Opera Foundation Australia’s German Operatic Award (1997), the Lord Mayor’s Performing Arts Fellowship (1997) and the American Institute of Musical Studies Award (1998). She was also the winner of the Australian regional final in The Metropolitan Opera Award (which enabled her to be a finalist in the 1998 Metropolitan Opera Auditions in New York).

From 1998 to 2000, Sarah was a member of the Opera Studio with Germany’s Cologne Opera. In 2000, she commenced a 12-month contract as a Young Artist with L’Opéra national du Rhin (in France) during which time she performed the roles of Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel and Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia. In 2001, she became a full-time soloist with Freiburg Opera (in Germany) performing the roles of Pamina in Die Zauberflöte (which she also performed for Basel Opera in Switzerland),
Ginevra in Ariodante, Janthe in Der Vampyr, Marzelline in Fidelio, Micaëla in Carmen and the title role in Arianna.

Sarah’s Australian performances include the roles of Pamina and First Lady in The Magic Flute, Sophie in Werther, Angelica in Orlando, Oberto in Alcina, Wood Nymph in Rusalka and Micaëla in Carmen (for Opera Australia), Marzelline in Fidelio, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Anna in Nabucco and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (for Opera Queensland) and Hero in The Love of the Nightingale (for Opera Queensland and Victorian Opera). She also appeared in the Australian première of Fire, Water, Paper – A Vietnam Oratorio (at the 1997 Brisbane Biennial Festival of Music).

Her concert engagements include Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater (with the Philharmonic Orchestra Freiburg), Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Brahms’ German Requiem and Orff’s Carmina Burana (with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra), Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (at the 4MBS Festival of Classics’ 15th Anniversary Concert), Opera Under the Stars (in Broome), Opera Australia’s 50th Anniversary Gala Concert, and appearances with the Queensland Pops Orchestra. She also appeared as a soloist for the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra’s Christmas concerts.

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