"virtuoso coloratura"
"enchanting"
SOPRANO
"absolute brilliance"
"gleaming, youthful tone"
Ms. LeMesh has quickly been garnering attention in international competitions. The Romanian-American soprano won First Prize in The Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition hosted at Weill Recital Hall, First Prize in the PARTNERS for the Arts, Inc. National Opera Competition in Washington, D.C., and First Prize in the Federation of Art Song Competition with pianist Allegra Chapman. Highlights of her 2024-25 season include Galatea in Handel's Acis & Galatea and Luigia in Donizetti's Viva la mamma! with The Florentine Opera, and the soprano solo in Max Richter's Woolf Works with the American Ballet Theatre at The Metropolitan Opera.
2024-25
Ms. LeMesh's 2024-2025 performance season includes numerous roles with The Florentine Opera as a Baumgartner Studio Artist, including Galatea in Acis and Galatea, Luigia in Viva la mamma!, and Frasquita in Carmen. She makes additional appearances with the Brooklyn Art Song Society and American Ballet Theatre.
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ANNUAL HIGHLIGHTS
Frasquita
Carmen
The Florentine Opera
May 2025
Soloist
The Book of Hanging Gardens
Yellow Barn Partnership Concert
April 2025
Luigia
Viva la mamma!
The Florentine Opera
March 2025
Galatea
Acis and Galatea
The Florentine Opera
February 2025
Ms. LeMesh won First Prize in The Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition and the Federation of the Art Song Fellowship Competition. She also made her Carnegie Hall debut in Stern Auditorium as the soprano soloist in Poulenc's Gloria in March 2024.
News
First Prize Winner
The Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition
April
2024
Ms. LeMesh won First Prize in the Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition hosted in Weill Recital Hall. Since 1977 the Oratorio Society of New York has hosted a solo competition to encourage the art of oratorio singing and to give young singers an opportunity to advance their careers.
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GRAND PRIZE WINNER
Federation of the Art Song Fellowship
Sara LeMesh and pianist Allegra Chapman won First Prize in the Federation of the Art Song Fellowship Award Competition in November 2023. The dynamic pair offered a diverse program featuring works by underrepresented composers in a variety of languages, including Yiddish, Ladino, Polish, French, and German. They will debut their program, Voices of Identity: Songs of the Jewish Diaspora, at the Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University and Princeton, New Jersey in the Spring of 2024.
“One of those songs, “Sveitaar, sveimen var Kvieoinen: ‘Koorwei, Koorwei’ ” pushed Sara LeMesh’s plush soprano into expressively guttural depths.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES