Sarah Coburn
Resident Artist
Music
Music - Voice
Biography
Soprano Sarah Coburn has performed leading roles on many of the world鈥檚 great stages, including The Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Boston Lyric Opera, Seattle Opera, Welsh National Opera, and Op茅ra de Montr茅al. In addition to decades of performing experience, she possesses a deep understanding of the emotional and psychological challenges facing professional musicians. Helping other musicians confront the challenges of performance anxiety gives her great joy. As a licensed psychotherapist, Ms. Coburn has a private practice in Tulsa where she specializes in couple therapy and treating adult individuals.
Recent seasons have included performing and recording Carlisle Floyd's Flower and Hawk, a monodrama about Eleanor of Aquitaine, with Odyssey Opera and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, a return to Seattle Opera as a soloist for their 60th Anniversary Gala, Lucia di Lammermoor with New York City Opera, Strauss鈥檚 Four Last Songs with the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, Lucia di Lammermoor with Lyric Opera Kansas City, Ad猫le in Le comte Ory听with Seattle Opera, the title role in 惭补苍辞苍听with Opera Santa Barbara, Konstanze in Die Entf眉hrung aus dem Serail with Atlanta Opera, concerts with tenor Lawrence Brownlee at both the Tivoli Festival with the Copenhagen Philharmonic and in Jurmala, Latvia, Mahler鈥檚 Symphony No. 4听with the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, and Rossini鈥檚 Stabat Mater听with the Choral Arts Society of Washington at the Kennedy Center. Her critically acclaimed recording of Bellini鈥檚 I Puritani, featuring tenor Lawrence Brownlee and the Kaunas City Symphony and Kaunas State Choir, was released in 2021 on Delos Records.
Career highlights include the role of Amina in La sonnambula with the Wiener Staatsoper, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos听with Seattle Opera, Marie in La fille du regiment听with Seattle Opera, Opera Carolina, and Tulsa Opera, Juliette in Rom茅o et Juliette with Tulsa Opera, and Adina in L鈥檈lisir d鈥檃more听with Washington National Opera. Ms. Coburn has performed the roles of Princess Yue-Yang in the world premiere production of Tan Dun鈥檚 The First Emperor at the Metropolitan Opera opposite Placido Domingo, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Florida Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Tulsa Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera San Antonio, and Boston Lyric Opera; the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Washington National Opera, Tulsa Opera, New York City Opera and Utah Opera; Gilda in Rigoletto with Welsh National Opera, Op茅ra de Montr茅al, Los Angeles Opera, Portland Opera, Arizona Opera, Nashville Opera, Tulsa Opera and Cincinnati Opera; Asteria in Tamerlano with Washington National Opera and Los Angeles Opera; Vittoria in Pedrotti鈥檚 Tutti in maschera at Wexford Festival Opera, Euridice and Genio in Haydn鈥檚 L鈥檃nima del filosofowith the Handel & Haydn Society and Glimmerglass Opera, Elvira in I puritani with the Tivoli Festival, Boston Lyric Opera and Washington Concert Opera, 尝补办尘茅 with Tulsa Opera, Lucie de Lammermoor with both Cincinnati Opera andGlimmerglass Opera, Linda di Chamounix at the Caramoor Festival, Amenaide inTancredi with Washington Concert Opera, and Giulietta in I Capuleti e I Montecchi with Glimmerglass Opera. Ms. Coburn has also performed with Glimmerglass Opera as the title character in Gilbert and Sullivan鈥檚 Patience as well as Sister Constance in Dialogues of the Carmelites, a role she reprised for New York City Opera.
Ms. Coburn created the role of Kitty in the world premiere of Anna Karenina at Florida Grand Opera and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. She has sung Adele in Die Fledermaus with both Seattle Opera and Michigan Opera Theatre, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera with Opera Company of Philadelphia, Florida Grand Opera, and Cincinnati Opera, Olympia in Les Contes d鈥橦o铿�mann and Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier with Cincinnati Opera, Norina in Don Pasquale, Adina in L鈥檈lisir d鈥檃more with Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Charlottesville Opera, Sandrina in La finta giardiniera and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro with Florida Grand Opera.
Ms. Coburn has appeared in concert with Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic, 91看片 City Philharmonic, Russian National Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic at the Tivoli Festival, The Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, and Handel & Haydn Society as soloist for 贰濒颈箩补丑听and Messiah. She has also sung Messiah with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony and the United States Naval Academy, Carmina Burana with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall, the National Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Wind Symphony; and has joined the Seattle Symphony for Mozart鈥檚 Mass in C Minor and Bach鈥檚 Mass in B Minor.
Ms. Coburn has appeared in concert with Bryn Terfel with Florida Grand Opera, as well as in a duo-recital for the United States Supreme Court; in recital with Lawrence Brownlee for the Vocal Arts Society, with Los Angeles Opera and the Mark Morris Dance Group in Handel鈥檚 鈥淟鈥檃llegro, il penseroso, ed il moderato鈥� and in recital at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Ms. Coburn has received awards from the George London Foundation, The Richard Tucker Foundation, The Jensen Foundation, The Liederkranz Foundation, Opera Index, and was a National Grand Finalist in the 2001 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
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