Sarah L. Davis has been hailed by the Boston Globe as having a “clear and
characterful soprano” and “assured musicianship”. A native of Colorado, Sarah earned
her Bachelor of Music at the University of Colorado and a Master of Music at Boston
University and spent a year as an Intern with the Boston University Opera Institute,
where she sang the role of Ilia in the Institute’s production of Idomeneo and Helena in
Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She also appeared in BU productions of Così
fan tutte, Die Fledermaus, Beatrice and Benedict and Le Nozze di Figaro, and scenes
from La Traviata, Dialogues des Carmelites, Roméo et Juliette and Carmen. Other
Boston credits include First Lady and First Spirit in Longwood Opera’s production of
The Magic Flute and Ensemble in Boston Lyric Opera’s productions of Thaïs, La
Traviata, Lucie de Lammermoor, Eugene Onegin, and Tosca as well as several
concert appearances with ALEA III, Maine Grand Opera, New Music Ensemble
Boston and the Saengerfest Chorus. In 2005, Sarah appeared as the soprano soloist
in Consent to Gravity, a landmark musical and choreographic interpretation of the
'scores' of artist Frederick Sommer at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the
Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York City, the Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence Performing Arts Center in Providence, RI and the Tower Auditorium at
MassArt in Boston.
As a 2004 Des Moines Metro Opera Apprentice Artist, Sarah appeared in scenes
from Pelléas et Mélisande, Little Women, Carmen, Die Zauberflöte and Postcard from
Morocco as well as in their production of Madama Butterfly. Sarah spent the summer
of 2003 as Young Artist at the Utah Festival Opera Company, where she sang the role
of Anna in Verdi’s Nabucco and appeared in their productions of Madama Butterfly
and Fiddler on the Roof, as well as being a featured soloist in the Carnivale
Operafesta concert. She also appeared in an international broadcast of the Mormon
Tabernacle Choir.
Ms. Davis was seen in University of Colorado productions of La Cenerentola (Tisbe
cover), Le Nozze di Figaro (Barbarina) and Albert Herring (Miss Wordsworth) as well
as Colorado Lyric Theatre Festival productions of The Gondoliers, Iolanthe, Elixir of
Love, Anything Goes and as Cousin Hebe in H.M.S. Pinafore.
Sarah has enjoyed teaching voice class at Boston University, music theory, diction,
movement, acting and private voice at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, in
Lenox, MA, and private voice at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Sudbury,
MA and in the Boston area.
Sarah now resides in Broomfield, Colorado, and will begin work on a Doctor of Musical
Arts degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the fall of 2008.