Known for her vibrant and engaging storytelling and the “rich beauty of her voice,” mezzo-soprano Sarah Nelson Craft has been hailed by Opera News as “exquisite… glowing… and genuine.” As a song recitalist she has been presented by Carnegie Hall, Five Boroughs Music Festival, Brooklyn Art Song Society, and Music Academy of the West, collaborating with renowned pianists including Warren Jones and Martin Katz. Seen and Heard International noted that she “cast a spell over the audience” and is “one of those singers for whom words and tone combine to create a beautiful, bubbling musical flow of emotion.”
She brought her passion for early music to the title role in Handel’s Solomon with New York Baroque, Inc. and Princeton Pro Musica, as well as the role of Piramo in Hasse’s Piramo e Tisbe with The Little Opera Theatre of NY. Concert highlights include Bach’s Mass in B minor at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, Mozart’s Coronation Mass at Alice Tully Hall, Vivaldi’s Gloria at Carnegie Hall, Mahler’s Symphony No.2 with the New Jersey Festival Orchestra, Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne with the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, and Debussy's Trois ballades de François Villon with New York Repertory Orchestra. Favorite operatic roles include the title role in Rossini’s La Cenerentola and Massenet’s Cendrillon, as well as Cherubino, Hansel, Dido, and Hermia in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Ms. Craft has performed with companies including the Caramoor International Music Festival, New York City Opera, Death of Classical, ChamberQUEER, and the Macau International Music Festival. This season she performed Berlioz’s La mort de Cléopâtre with New York Repertory Orchestra and was a soloist in Caroline Shaw’s The Listeners with Amor Artis Chamber Choir. She will perform more works by Shaw this June as part of Brooklyn Art Song Society's New Voices Festival where she will also premiere a new song cycle by composer/violist Jessica Meyer.