Sarah Nalty

American soprano Sarah Nalty is noted for her adventurous and versatile performances, having performed opera and art song spanning the Renaissance to the 21st century, and in over a dozen languages.. Her recent highlights include Rusalka (cover) in Rusalka with New Jersey Opera Theater, Stella (cover) in Viardot’s Le dernier sorcier at Bard Music Festival, and her Hudson Hall debut in a work-in-progress performance of American Terror, a new opera by Jeffrey Lependorf. From 2022-2024, she was a member of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard Conservatory, where she performed Rosa in Shir Hashirim with the YIVO Institute, Minerve in Orphée aux enfers, and Saariaho’s From the Grammar of Dreams at Bard’s annual Kurtág Festival. Other operatic highlights include scenes performances as Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) at Bard, and Elle in La voix humaine at New England Conservatory. An avid recitalist, Sarah often programs under-performed works from the Eastern European canon, and has performed Liederabende in the Hudson Valley, Boston, Ann Arbor, and Graz, Austria. In 2019, she was recognized with the Harold Heiberg Liedersänger Preis at AIMS in Graz for her German Lieder interpretations.