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Dufresne, Sarah (soprano)
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Sarah Dufresne (soprano)

Canadian soprano Sarah Dufresne was a member of the Jette Parker Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House in London from 2022-2024. She was also as Associate Artist with The Mozartists for the 2023-2024 season.

In 2022 Sarah was awarded the Second Prize (Aria division) in the Concours Musical International de Montréal praised for her “tremendous dramatic presence,” and “astonishing clarity and vocal dexterity” (Opera Canada). She was also awarded a prestigious grant for Canadian Musicians by the Sylva Gelber Foundation and was also named one of Canada’s ‘Top 30 Classical Musicians Under 30’.

Sarah was awarded the top prize of Stingray Music Rising Star in the 2019 l’Opéra de Montréal talent gala. That same year, Sarah was an award winner at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Buffalo/Toronto District) and earned the prestigious Jacqueline Desmarais Grant for Young Canadian Opera Singers.

Sarah has performed roles such as Frasquita in Bizet’s Carmen, Giannetta in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, and Dew Fairy in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, Papagena in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Lucia in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Der Hirt in Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Voce dal Cielo in Verdi’s Don Carlo and Barbarina in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at the ROH. She also made her debut with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal for Orff’s Carmina Burana with Rafael Payare.

She had the great pleasure of working under the batons of Sir Antonio Pappano, Joana Mallwitz, Bertrand de Billy, Maxim Emelyanychev, Cristian Macelaru, and Sebastian Weigle, and the direction of Sir David McVicar, Oliver Mears, and Tim Albery.

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