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Alice Stacpoole

Assistant Artist Manager

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General Management with Askonas Holt (Excl. Canada) Partner manager Canada: Dean Artists Management

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).

Sarah is based in Canada

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Representation

General Management with Askonas Holt (Excl. Canada) Partner manager Canada: Dean Artists Management

Season Highlights

Aug 2024
Lanaudiere Festival
Aida (High Priestess) Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Montreal Opera
Hamlet (Ophélie) Jacques Lacombe (conductor)
Dec 2024 - Dec 2024
Barbican, London
La rondine (Yvette) Antonio Pappano (conductor)

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Selected Repertoire

BernsteinCandide (Cunegonde)
BizetCarmen (Frasquita)
BrittenAlbert Herring (Miss Wordsworth)   •   A Midsummer's Dream (Tytania)   •   Rape of Lucretia (Lucia)
Donizetti L’elisir d'amore (Adina, Giannetta)
HandelAcis 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)
MassenetWerther (Sophie)
MozartDie Zauberflote (Pamina), (Papagena)   •   Don Giovanni (Zerlina)   •   La Clemenza di Tito (Servilia)   •   Le Nozze di Figaro (Barbarina)
PucciniLa rondine (Yvette)
RavelL’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)

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Press

  • La Rondine

    Barbican, London
    Dec 2024
    • Sarah Dufresne, Angela Schisano and Marvic Monreal standing out as a trio of gossipy good-time girls.

    • 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.

    • 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.

Bayerische Staatsoper 2024/25 season to feature 23 Askonas Holt artists

/18 March 2024

The Bayerische Staatsoper announced their 2024/25 season over the weekend, with 23 Askonas Holt artists appearing over an even greater number of productions.

Edward Gardner conducts Rusalka which features Asmik Grigorian singing the title role alongside Christine Rice as Jezibaba. Asmik also sings Senta in Der fliegende Holländer.

Following appearances at the opera house last month conducting L'elisir d'amore, Emmanuel Villaume returns next season to lead Madama Butterfly.

Angel Blue returns to Munich as Mimi in La bohème. She’s joined by William Thomas who makes his Bayerische Staatsoper debut singing Colline. Also making house debuts are Sarah Dufresne as Semele in a new production of Die Liebe Der Danae, and Miles Mykkanen as Graf Albert in Die tote Stadt.

Several Askonas Holt sopranos sing leading roles next season. Nicole Car makes a role debut as Amelia in Un ballo in maschera. Rosa Feola sings Micaela in Carmen and Mané Galoyan sings Adina in L’elisir d’amore. Following critically acclaimed performances in the new production of Le Nozze di Figaro this season, Dorothea Röschmann reprises her role of Marcellina.

Recent signing Rachel Willis-Sørensen returns as Elsa in Lohengrin and as Elisabetta di Valois in Don Carlo, appearing alongside Stephen Costello who sings the title role, and Dmitry Belosselskiy as the Inquisitore.

Xabier Anduaga – another recent addition to the AH roster – sings Tonio in a new production of La Fille du Regiment. He also appears as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, a role he also sings this season at the Royal Opera House.

Matthew Rose sings Fasolt in a new production of Das Rheingold and Larissa Diadkova also joins a new production of Die Passagierin singing Bronka alongside Christina Bock as Lisa.

Ensemble members Emily Sierra, Paweł Horodyski and Nikita Volkov appear in a variety of roles, notably with Emily singing Dorabella in Così fan tutte and Hansel in Hänsel und Gretel.

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