Sarah Saturnino

Sarah Saturnino, a Mexican-American, mezzo-soprano, is starting her second season in the LA Opera Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program. In The 2023/2024 season she will be singing the roles of Frida Image 3 in El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, Maid 3 in Der Zwerg, and Flora in La Traviata.

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She recently made her role debut of Carmen in Bizet's Carmen at Opera Santa Barbara. 

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She will be competing in the Thirtieth Anniversary of Operalia in Cape Town, South Africa in October-November of 2023/ 

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In her 2022/2023 season at La Opera she sang the roles of Lucretia in a concert performance of The Rape of Lucretia under the baton of Maestro Lina Gonzalez-Granados, and Emilia in Otello, and Jocabed in Mollicone’s Moses under the baton of Maestro James Conlon.

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Summer of 2023 saw Miss Saturnino in Tel Aviv, Israel singing Dorabella in Cosí fan tutte under the baton of Maestro Louis Lohraseb. She also sang the role of Alice Ford in Vaughn Williams’ Sir John in Love at the Bard Music Festival.

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Miss Saturnino was an Apprentice Artist at Santa Fe Opera during their 2021 and 2022 summer seasons. In 2021 she covered the roles of Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro and Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as scene work from Bellini’s I Capuletti e i Montecchi as Romeo. In 2022 she covered the roles of Carmen in Bizet’s Carmen and Meg Page in Verdi’s Falstaff as well as scene work as Eboli in Verdi’s Don Carlo.

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​She is an alumna of The Chautauqua Opera Company’s Young Artist program (2018) where she covered Paquette in Candide and sang Komponist from Ariadne auf Naxos in their Apprentice Scenes Program

Praised for her “solid fortress of sound” (Operawire) and her “range of vocal colors” (Miami Herald), Miss Saturnino’s recent roles include: Maddalena in Rigoletto at Opera San Antonio, Amarillo Opera, Shreveport Opera and Painted Sky Opera. Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro and Carmen in The Tragedy of Carmen with Shreveport Opera. Vera Boronel in The Consul with Baltimore Concert Opera. Mutter in Hänsel und Gretel and Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte with Yale Opera.

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Miss Saturnino is a Grand Finalist of the 2023 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. She won Second Place in the Pasadena Vocal Competition. She received the Donald & Luke Graham Memorial Award (2022) and the Campbell/Wachter Scholarship Award (2021) from the Santa Fe Opera. She received the Faculty Award from the Vann Vocal Institute in 2020. She won first place at the Pacific North West Competition in Eugene, Oregon in 2019. She has placed in the top ten in the Brava! Competition two years (2018/2019) in a row and was a Grand Finalist in the Talents of the World Competition in 2018.

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Her concert works include Verdi’s Requiem with The Bakersfield Symphony, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with LA Chamber Orchestra. Other works include Handel’s Let God Arise, and O sing unto the Lord, and Messiah. She has also sung in recitals for the Trinity on Wall Street: Pipes at One Series and The Chautauqua Opera Company’s Emerging Artists Recital. She has sung Bernstein’s Candide in concert as The Old Lady with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra.    

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Miss Saturnino graduated cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts: Vocal Performance and a Music Industry Minor in 2016. She graduated with honors from the Yale University School of Music with a Masters of Music in 2018.

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Miss Saturnino is a choreographer, fight director and intimacy director. Her work includes Feel the Tango, Speed Dating, and Le Nozze di Figaro for Shreveport Opera. She was the fight captain for Carmen while at the Santa Fe Opera. She works with Sordelet Inc. as a Fight and Intimacy Director. She is also trained in fencing.