Known for her vibrant and engaging storytelling and the “rich beauty of her voice,” mezzo-soprano Sarah Nelson Craft has been hailed by Opera News as “exquisite… glowing… and genuine.” As a song recitalist she has been presented by Carnegie Hall, Brooklyn Art Song Society, Five Boroughs Music Festival, and Music Academy of the West, collaborating with renowned pianists including Warren Jones and Martin Katz. Seen and Heard International noted that she “cast a spell over the audience” and is “one of those singers for whom words and tone combine to create a beautiful, bubbling musical flow of emotion.”
She brought her passion for early music to the title role in Handel’s Solomon with New York Baroque, Inc. and Princeton Pro Musica, as well as the role of Piramo in Hasse’s Piramo e Tisbe with The Little Opera Theatre of NY. Concert highlights include Bach’s Mass in B minor at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, Mozart’s Coronation Mass at Alice Tully Hall, Vivaldi’s Gloria at Carnegie Hall, Mahler’s Symphony No.2 with the New Jersey Festival Orchestra, and Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne with the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra. Favorite operatic roles have included the title role in Rossini’s La Cenerentola and Massenet’s Cendrillon, both Sesto and Annio in La clemenza di Tito, as well as Cherubino, Hansel, Dido, and Hermia in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Ms. Craft has performed with companies including the Caramoor International Music Festival, New York City Opera, Death of Classical, ChamberQUEER, and the Macau International Music Festival. Most recently she performed Berlioz’s La mort de Cléopâtre with New York Repertory Orchestra, and was the mezzo-soprano soloist in Caroline Shaw’s The Listeners with Amor Artis Chamber Choir and in the Duruflé Requiem with Riverside Choral Society.