SarahDufresne
Representation
About Sarah
Canadian soprano Sarah Dufresne was a member of the Jette Parker Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House from 2022-2024 and was named as an Associate Artist of The Mozartists for the 2023-2024 season.
Named as one of Canada’s Top 30 Classical Musicians Under 30 in 2022, Sarah's recent performances at the Royal Opera House include Lucia (The Rape of Lucretia), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Hirt (Tannhäuser), Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Voce dal Cielo (I and Tusnelda (Arminio). Other recent performances include Carmina Burana with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Rafael Payare, and Nora (Riders to the Sea) with the Montreal Opera. She has also performed with companies and orchestras across Canada, including Orchestre de l’Agora, Ottawa Choral Society and with Orchestre Métropolitain.
In 2022 Sarah was awarded the Second Prize (Aria division) at the Concours Musical International de Montréal and was praised for her “tremendous dramatic presence,” and “astonishing clarity and vocal dexterity” (Opera Canada).
Representation
Season Highlights
Video
CMIM Voice 2022 Semifinal - Sarah Dufresne
Sarah Dufresne - Semifinal Aria division Concours musical international de Montréal, OSM Jacques Lacombe June 2022 Credit: Concours musical international de Montréal
PlayingSarah Dufresne - CMIM Voice 2022 - Final
Sarah Dufresne: Final round of the Aria division of the Concours musical international de Montréal, OSM Jacques Lacombe June 2022 Credit: Concours musical international de Montréal
PlayingSarah Dufresne - Mozart - Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio!
Sarah Dufresne Orchestre Métropolitain Nicolas Ellis Place des Arts, Montreal June 2021 Credit: Orchestre Métropolitain
Playing
Photos
Selected Repertoire
| Bernstein | Candide (Cunegonde) |
|---|---|
| Bizet | Carmen (Frasquita) |
| Britten | Albert Herring (Miss Wordsworth) • A Midsummer's Dream (Tytania) • Rape of Lucretia (Lucia) |
| Donizetti | L’elisir d'amore (Adina, Giannetta) |
| Handel | Acis and Galatea (Galatea) • Alcina (Morgana) • Ariodante (Ginevra) • Armino (Tusnelda) • Jephtha (Iphis) |
| Humperdinck | Hansel and Gretel (Dew Fairy) |
| Janacek | Cunning Little Vixen (Vixen) |
| Lizée | No One's Safe (Rebecca Marshall) |
| Massenet | Werther (Sophie) |
| Mozart | Die Zauberflote (Pamina), (Papagena) • Don Giovanni (Zerlina) • La Clemenza di Tito (Servilia) • Le Nozze di Figaro (Barbarina) |
| Puccini | La rondine (Yvette) |
| Ravel | L’enfant et les sortileges (The Nightingale) |
| Thomas | Hamlet (Ophélie) |
| Vaughan Williams | Riders to the Sea (Nora) |
| Verdi | Don Carlo (Voce dal cielo) • Rigoletto (Gilda) |
| Wagner | Tannhauser (Shepherd) |
| Weill | Street Scene (Mrs. Fiorentino) |
News
Press
La Rondine
Barbican, LondonDec 2024Sarah Dufresne, Angela Schisano and Marvic Monreal standing out as a trio of gossipy good-time girls.
- The Guardian
- 11 December 2024
Ashley Riches’ Rambaldo was suitably unpleasant, while Sarah Dufresne, Angela Schisano and Marvic Monreal all impressed in smaller roles, and the chorus seemed to have more fun than a puritan might deem acceptable in a crisp and well-drilled Act 2.
- Bachtrack
- 11 December 2024
Her lover Prunier, Paul Appleby, seemed swamped by the orchestral sound, but three party guests led by Sarah Dufresne fluttered better.
Elsewhere, Sarah Dufresne, Angela Schisano and Marvic Monreal impressed in their cameo roles.
- Opera Today
- 15 December 2024