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Praised as “sizzling,” “riveting and passionate” and possessing a voice of “warm, organic liquidity,” Sarah Larsen made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the 2016 – 2017 season in Sir Richard Eyre’s production of Werther. She returns to The Met in the spring of 2019 for their production of The Ring Cycle and will have her company debut in Calgary Opera’s Canadian premiere of Everest, reprising the role of Jan Arnold. Additional company debuts for the 2018-19 season include Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with Virginia Opera, Dorabella in Così fan tutte with Mill City Summer Opera, and a residency with the Moab Music Festival. Future performances include debuts with the Ravinia Festival and the Seattle Symphony.
In the 2017 – 2018 season, she continued at The Met with productions of The Merry Widow, Cendrillon, and Parsifal with Music Director Designate Yannick Nézet-Séguin. She began the season as Ma Moss in The Tender Land with Intermountain Opera Bozeman, made her company and role debut at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City as Jan Arnold in Everest, appeared as Prince Orlofsky in Des Moines Metro Opera’s Die Fledermaus and with The Knights as Paquette in Candide at the Tanglewood Music Festival. In the summer of 2017, Ms. Larsen made her Italian debut, in a staging of Vivaldi’s La Gloria e Imeneo with the famed I Solisti Veneti, and presented a recital under the auspices of the Seattle Art Song Society.
An alumna of the Seattle Opera Young Artist Program, Ms. Larsen enjoys a long relationship with the company. She has been featured as Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos, Hänsel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, and Maddalena in Rigoletto, among others. In 2015 and 2016, Ms. Larsen was in residence as a Filene Young Artist with Wolf Trap Opera, where she was heard on stage as Bianca in Rape of Lucretia and Susanna in The Ghosts of Versailles. Previously with Wolf Trap, she created the role of Sarelda in John Musto and Mark Campbell’s comic opera The Inspector, with a recording released in 2012.
Other engagements include her Arizona Opera debut as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Suzuki at The Berkshire Opera Festival, Mercédès in Carmen for her Santa Fe Opera debut, Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette with Des Moines Metro Opera, and Neris in Medea with The Glimmerglass Festival. On the concert stage, she has been heard in performances of Bach’s B minor mass, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Handel’s Messiah, and Durufle’s Requiem.
In 2015 Ms. Larsen joined The Metropolitan Opera roster covering La Muse/Nicklausse in Bartlett Sher’s production of Les contes d’Hoffmann, debuted with the Pacific Symphony as Mercédès in Carmen, and returned to Wolf Trap Opera as a soloist in Steven Blier’s The Rodgers Family – A Century of Musicals.
March 2013 marked her debut with the New York Festival of Song with Song of the Midnight Sun, a concert celebrating Scandinavian art song. Additionally, Ms. Larsen, along with Caitlyn Lynch and Morgan Smith, created a new song cycle entitled Farewell, Auschwitz, by Jake Heggie and Gene Sheer in May 2013 with Music of Remembrance, which was recorded and released by Naxos.
Ms. Larsen is from Roseville, MN and is a graduate of Simpson College and Rice University. She continued her training with residencies at the Aspen Opera Theater Center, Sarasota Opera, Virginia Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, The Glimmerglass Festival, The Santa Fe Opera and Seattle Opera. Ms. Larsen is the recipient of the Catherine Filene Shouse Career Grant from Wolf Trap Opera, the Donald Gramm Memorial Award from The Santa Fe Opera, is a two-time recipient of the Seattle Opera Guild Training Grant, and was 3rd place winner in the 2013 Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition.