SOPRANO
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 2023-24 season include Poulenc's Gloria at Carnegie Hall, the American Premiere of Jörg Widmann's Labrynth V at YellowBarn, and the soprano solo in Max Richter's Woolf Works with the American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera.
Updated August 2024
Ms. LeMesh's 2023-2024 performance season includes debuts with West Bay Opera, the Brooklyn Art Song Society, New England Symphonic Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, the Opera Company of Middlebury, and American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera.
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ANNUAL HIGHLIGHTS
SOPRANO SOLOIST
Woolf Works
Metropolitan Opera American Ballet Theatre
June 2024
MARIE
La fille du régiment
Opera Company of Middlebury
June 2024
GLORIA
Francis Poulenc
New England Symphonic Ensemble at Carnegie Hall
March 2024
Isabel Perón
Corpus Evita
West Bay Opera
February 2024
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.
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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