Schedule
Upcoming Engagements
TBAVier letzte Lieder
Richard Strauss
June 2024
Details TBA
Soprano soloist, A Child of Our Time
Michael Tippett
June 2024
Details TBA
Past Engagements
Fünf Lieder
Alma Mahler (Orchestration by Jorma Panula)
October 2023
Winterthur and Chur, Switzerland
Conductor: Kalena Bovell
Cio-Cio San (cover)/Kate Pinkerton (performance), Madama Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini
August 2023
Jackson Hole, WY
Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles
Director: David Lefkowich
Görlitz/Zgorzelec Jewish Remembrance Week-Artist in Residence
Giacomo Puccini and Michael Ching
June 2023
Kulturforum Görlitzer Synagoge, Görlitz, Germany
Leon Gurvitch– one of today’s leading Jewish composers presents his work from the piano for Jewish remebrance week. Both Gurvitch and Duchovnay are Jewish-descendants of Holocaust victims. Their unique backgrounds as second and third-generation Holocaust survivors ties this concert perfectly into the theme of reuniting Jewish descendants with the city their families were expelled from.
Görlitz/Zgorzelec Jewish Remembrance Week-Artist in Residence
"Jüdischer Jugendbund Görlitz" Concert Reproduction and Discussion
June 2023
Meetingpoint Memory Messian, Zgorzelec, Poland
Musical reproduction of the exact recital program presented by the Jüdischer Jugendbund Görlitz" in 1928
Pianist, Yuto Kiguchi
Soprano Soloist, Missa Solemnis
Ludwig van Beethoven
Nedda, Pagliacci (semi-staged)
Ruggero Leoncavallo
2019
Conductor: Steven White
Die erste Dienerin, Die ägyptische Helena (concert)
Richard Strauss
2019
Conductor: Gil Rose
Helen, Howard's End America (world premiere)
Composed by Allen Shearer on a libretto by Claudia Stevens
2019
Conductor: Mary Chun
Director: Philip Lowery
Lauretta, Gianni Schicchi and Buoso’s Ghost
Giacomo Puccini and Michael Ching
2018
Conductor: Michael Ching
Director: A. Scott Parry
Lauretta, Gianni Schicchi and Buoso’s Ghost
Giacomo Puccini and Michael Ching
2018
Conductor: Michael Ching
Director: A. Scott Parry
“...alluring...piercing beauty.”
-San Francisco Chronicle
"...clarion-voiced"
-San Francisco Examiner
Media
“Her high notes rang out with ease at the swelling climaxes in both her first act aria and in her love duet with Silvio.”
- Roanoke Times
"Dynamic and expressive, Duchovnay sang with warmth and luster...she moved with elan, thus matching her vocal vibrancy”
- OperaWire
About
American soprano Sara Duchovnay has been hailed by The San Francisco Examiner as “clarion voiced” and OperaWire described her as “dynamic and expressive”, further adding that she “sang with warmth and luster” and “moved with elan, thus matching her vocal vibrancy”. Of her 2019 role debut as Nedda in Pagliacci with Opera Roanoke, the Roanoke Times praised her “nuanced portrait of an unhappy woman” and “her high notes [which] rang out with ease at the swelling climaxes in both her first act aria and in her love duet with Silvio.”
Notable engagements during the 2022/2023 season included Sara's debut with the Grand Teton Music Festival, where she covered the role of Cio-Cio San and sang the role of Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly under the baton of Sir Donald Runnicles. She also made her Swiss debut with Musikkollegium Winterthur, singing Alma Mahler's Fünf Lieder with the Musikkollegium Winterthur Orchestra under the baton of Kalena Bovell. Additionally, she served as Artist in Residence for the Görlitz/Zgorzelec Jewish Remembrance Week, performing concerts in Germany and Poland. As the granddaughter of Holocaust surivors, Sara was honored to add her voice and her soul to this very special project.
During recent seasons, Sara has appeared as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi with Opera Delaware, and Die erste Dienerin in Die ägyptische Helena with Odyssey Opera, and as the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Madison Symphony Orchestra under the baton of John DeMain.
Additional roles in Sara’s repertoire include Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Alcina (Alcina), Musetta (La bohème), and Liù (Turandot). Before transitioning into lyric repertoire, earlier credits included Zerlina in Don Giovanni with Opera Santa Barbara; Nanetta in Falstaff and Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire with Opera San Jose; Jemmy in Guillaume Tell and Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the Southern Illinois Music Festival; Zerbinetta and Naïde in Ariadne auf Naxos with Pacific Opera Project and Festival Opera, and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro with Pacific Opera Project.
A sought after interpreter of contemporary opera, Sara originated the role of Dorothea in Allen Shearer and Claudia Stevens’ opera Middlemarch in Spring with Composers Inc., and also reprised the role of Dorothea with Charlottesville Opera. Shearer and Stevens once again called upon Sara to originate the role of Helen in the world premiere of their opera, Howard's End, America in 2019 with Earplay Ensemble. Sara has also performed the roles of Soprano 1 in Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg’s Hydrogen Jukebox with West Edge Opera, Lauretta in Michael Ching’s Buoso’s Ghost with Opera Delaware and Baltimore Concert Opera, and Della in David Conte’s Gift of the Magi with Hidden Valley Opera Ensemble.
Sara resides in Berlin, Germany. She is a student of Adina Nitescu and holds a Bachelor of Music from The Hartt School of Music and a Master of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
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