SARAH MESKO- Mezzo-soprano- In the 2010-2011 season, Sarah Mesko made both her European debut in Paris in Lully’s Armide with Mercury Baroque and the Théatre de Gennevilliers and her Carnegie Hall debut in the Weill Recital Hall. She also was heard in Bach’s Mass in B Minor with the American Bach Soloists Academy and as the Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Mesko is about to begin her second season with Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program where she has sung the role of Suzuki in Madama Butterfly (a family performance) and will round out this season as the Second Priestess in Iphigénie en Tauride. Highlights of previous seasons include the Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos with Rice University Opera Theater and the title role in Rinaldo (a family performance) with Central City Opera. This summer, she will join the Santa Fe Opera as an apprentice artist, performing in scenes and covering the role of Costanza in Vivaldi’s Griselda.. Ms. Mesko is a recent winner of the Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation Prize in New York’s Liederkranz Competition and, in 2010, she was the grand prize winner of the Young Texas Artists Competition. In 2009, she was a national finalist of the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions and a recipient of a Richard F. Gold Career Grant. Ms. Mesko won first prizes in 2008 in the National Society of Arts and Letters Vocal Competition and the Franco-American Vocal Academy’s Grand Concours de Chant.
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