“Sara LeMesh was a mesmerizing Bess. The soprano projected the character’s anguish, fervency and increasingly fragile emotional state in an urgent, tonally secure and affectingly plangent vocal performance.”
OPERA NEWS 2019
Ms. LeMesh's 2019-2020 performance season includes Lucy in The Threepenny Opera produced as a film with City Lyric Opera, Zerlina in Don Giovanni with Pocket Opera, and an independently produced music video with her piano-vocal duo, Chordless.
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SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
Catapult Opera
ACCELERATE
Soprano & Producer
October 2020
CHORDLESS
Music Video
Zoom Premiere
May 2020
View video footage of Ms. LeMesh's performances as well as production and press photo galleries.
Media
WATCH MS. LeMESH
View video footage of selections from Breaking the Waves and other contemporary works by Ligeti, Crumb, and Bacewicz.
Ms. LeMesh recently produced a "heartbreakingly beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle) music video with her piano-vocal duo, Chordless.
News
Music Video Premiere
The Night in Silence Under Many a Star
May
2020
Ms. LeMesh premiered a music video created with her piano-vocal duo, Chordless. In February 2020, they recorded and filmed "The Night in Silence Under Many a Star" from George Crumb's Apparition. Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle praised the "heartbreakingly beautiful" film and the San Francisco Classical Voice praised the duo for "provide[ing] a futuristic model for classical music."
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U.S. Premiere
Ercole su'l Termodonte by Vivaldi
Ms. LeMesh makes her debut with Pacific Opera Project in Los Angeles, California during December 2020 (exact date TBD due to COVID-19). She will perform Martesia in the U.S. Premiere of Ercole su'l Termodonte by Vivaldi. Written in 1723, the opera was recently rediscovered in libraries in Münster, Paris, and Turino.
