SARAH JANE MCMAHON

Swiftly gaining recognition for her beautiful “vocal sophistication” and sparkling stage presence, soprano SARAH JANE McMAHON, who made her New York City Opera début in 2006 as Galatea in Handel’s Acis and Galatea and subsequently received the company’s coveted Kolozsvar Award, opened the organization’s spring season this year in Purcell’s King Arthur, receiving praise for her “silvery-voiced soprano” and “real star presence.”

Shortly after earning her Master’s Degree in Music from Yale University, Ms. McMahon was selected by Maestro Placido Domingo to join the Los Angeles Opera, where she sang with the celebrated tenor as the Fifth Flower Maiden in Parsifal and afterwards appeared in such other roles as Naiad in Ariadne auf Naxos and The Milliner in Der Rosenkavalier. And in addition to her work with the Los Angeles and New York City Operas, she has also sung with a number of other distinguished companies, including the New Orleans Opera, the Grand Rapids Opera, the Washington Concert Opera, the Opera Theater of Connecticut, and the Des Moines Metro Opera.

Recent concert appearances have included the opening of New York City Opera’s 2007 Season as Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, the role of Donna Clara, the Infanta, in Der Zwerg at Bard SummerScape Festival, Carmina Burana at Avery Fisher Hall, The Rutter Requiem at Carnegie Hall, a New Year’s Eve Gala with the New Orleans Opera, and Yum-Yum in The Mikado and Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance with the Colorado Symphony. And New York audiences have enjoyed her appearances in Scott Seigel’s Broadway by the Year 1959, Broadway Unplugged, and A Night at the Operetta at New York’s Town Hall, for which Opera News praised her “beauty pageant looks” and “superb, stylish rendition” of “One Kiss.”

Ms. McMahon’s upcoming engagements include Clara in The Light in the Piazza with the Piedmont Opera, A Tribute to Lerner and Loewe Concert at Town Hall, NYC, Zerlina in Don Giovanni with the Virginia Opera, appearances with the Central City Opera as Lucia in Britten’s Rape of Lucretia and Maria in West Side Story, a return to the New Orleans Opera as Micaela, Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto with the Mississippi Opera, and a Gala Concert with Placido Domingo.

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