Sarah Power

Dublin-born soprano Sarah Power is a graduate of the National Opera Studio and the Guildhall Opera Course, London where she studied with Susan McCulloch. Previously she completed a Postgraduate Diploma at the RNCM, Manchester, under the tutelage of Susan Roper, and a Degree and Masters in Music Performance at the DIT Conservatory, Dublin, where she studied with Anne-Marie O’Sullivan. She continues to study privately withSusan McCulloch.

Sarah’s operatic roles include Nanetta/Falstaff (Diva Opera), Lydie/Pénélope (Wexford Festival Opera), Alison/The Wandering Scholar & Cathleen/Riders to the Sea (Glasthule Opera), Pamina/Die Zauberflöte, Susanna/Le nozze di Figaro & Berenice/L’occasione fa il ladro (Guildhall School) and opera scenes as Tytania, Ilia, Gretel, Adina, Sophie & Anne Truelove.

Recent performances have included the roles of Nanetta/Falstaff for Diva Opera and La Bise & La Voix du Miroir/La Chouette Enrhumée for Les Azuriales Festival, Vivaldi’s Gloria in the Royal Albert Hall (conducted by Sir David Willcocks), Handel’s Messiah with the Leeds Philharmonic Chorus and the Manchester Camerata, the Irish premiere of Howard Goodall’s Eternal Light, a solo recital in the Bösendorfer-Saal, Vienna and the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, and Opera Galas for Glasthule Opera and the Stratford On Avon Music Festival.

Sarah has participated in masterclasses with Ann Murray, Kiri te Kanawa, Joyce di Donato, Michael Chance and Andreas Scholl. Notable awards include a Making Music Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, a Sybil Tutton Award (MBF), the Audrey Strange Memorial Prize for a Singer of Promise (ROSL), the RDS Music Bursary of €10,000 and the DIT Gold Medal for Excellence. In 2010 Sarah was the recipient of the LBS Bach Singers Prize, she was awarded 2nd Prize in the Kathleen Ferrier Singing Competition and was a finalist in the Handel Singing Competition.

Future engagements include soprano soloist in Haydn’s Creation in the Royal Albert Hall, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 & Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’Étés for the Barnet Symphony Orchestra, solo recitals in the Beethoven-Saal, Vienna and St. George’s Hanover Square, and the role of Gilda/Rigoletto for Diva Opera.