Sarah Castle (Mezzo Soprano)
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Sarah Castle was born in New Zealand and studied at the Royal Northern
College of Music in Manchester, where she won the Brigitte Fassbänder
Prize for Lieder interpretation. Her roles include Octavian, the
title-role in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride, Dorabella, Cherubino,
Lucretia in Britten’s opera, Hänsel, Popova in Walton’s The
Bear, and Olga in Eugene Onegin. She sang in the première of
Maxwell Davies’s Caroline Mathilde Ballet Suite No. 2 and in
Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Twice through the Heart, and made her
début at the Proms. Her début for the Royal Opera at Covent Garden in
2001 was as Tisbe in La Cenerentola. She has also appeared there
in Der Ring des Nibelungen as Siegrune in Die Walküre, and
Flosshilde in Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung. In the
same year she made her débuts at La Monnaie in Brussels and at the
Amsterdam Concertgebouw. At Klagenfurt she sang the title-role in
Handel’s Teseo and has appeared with the New Zealand Opera as
Cherubino and at Stuttgart also as Oberto in Alcina. She has appeared
with the Bavarian State Opera, San Francisco Opera, Teatro Real Madrid,
Philadelphia Opera, Opera Australia and New Israeli Opera. For the
Bayreuth Festival she sang Source: Naxos |
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