Sara Murphy

Sara Murphy is an active vocal soloist, called “a gorgeous, deep, dark mezzo-soprano” by the New York Times. In October 2016, she makes her European debut at Opera Theater of Rome as Ulrica in Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera under the baton of Jesús López-Cobos. Highlights of recent seasons include soloist engagements at New York City’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center with Oratorio Society of New York, American Symphony Orchestra and MidAtlantic Opera in works as wide-ranging as the Ligeti Requiem, Schnittke's Nagasaki, Hindemith's The Long Christmas Dinner and Handel’s Messiah. She has served as soloist for several seasons at Cincinnati May Festival with the Cincinnati Symphony conducted by James Conlon, appearing in Verdi’s Otello, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mahler's Symphony No. 8, Beethoven'