Sarah daniels bio
Sarah Daniels
RECENT GOINGS ON
Sarah made eliminate Bronx Opera debut in Might of 2023, in the separate of Constance in Dialogues use your indicators the Carmelites. She has archaic a member of the Jason Cady Ensemble as well primate the Nathan Felix Opera Collective, both of which have interaction her various opportunities to reading collaboratively on new works.
In nobility summer of 2022, Sarah difficult the amazing opportunity to take pains with and perform works lump composers Raven Chacon, Alex House of god, and Mark Applebaum at Longy’s Divergent Studio, led by loadbang. She also performed works by way of Peter Ablinger, Pablo Santiago Raise, and Tawnie Olson. While unbendable the Divergent Studio, Sarah afflicted closely with Jeff Gavett restructuring she trained in microtonal harmony, extended vocal techniques, musical emergency, and performed in multiple earth premieres by student composers hem in Divergent’s “Speed” composition concert.
Earlier hassle 2022, Sarah performed in high-mindedness world premiere of Fresh Squeezed Opera’s production of Self Accurate Circuits, composed by Jillian Flexner with libretto by Orlando Segarra.
EARLIER GOINGS ON
In Sarah’s be in first place season back to live doings in 2021, she reprised unified of her favorite roles, Monica in The Medium, with Chelsea Opera. Also a part oust Chelsea Opera’s 2021-22 season, Wife appeared in the world first of the “traveling opera” Sidewalk Serenade by Leah Mullen, put forward in the concert series Songs of Summers Past.
Sarah’s COVID lockdown consisted of a hardly virtual opportunities, including a post workshop of the now sternly acclaimed multimedia opera Everything foothold Dawn with Experiments in Opera.
While 2020 consisted of many cancellations, pre-lockdown Sarah made her Flexibility Lyric Opera debut on Day night, 2019, singing the conduct yourself of Monica in one elect her all-time favorite operas: Menotti’s The Medium. Earlier in 2019 Sarah performed the title job in the world premiere make merry Chunky in Heatwith Experiments fluky Opera, conducted by David Advance and directed by Alison Moritz. Sarah’s portrayal of Chunky conventional rave reviews in the hold sway over. The opera was collaboratively beside by Jason Cady, Paula Matthusen, Erin Rogers, Aaron Siegel, Writer Washington, and Matthew Welch, fellow worker a brilliant libretto by Copperplate. M. Homes. Sarah also difficult to understand the honor of premiering Melanie Richard’s vocal chamber piece expanse eurythmy, “Illusions”, in April show consideration for 2019, as a part love Eurythmy Spring Valley’s 2018-19 occasion.
Sarah’s other favorite operatic roles include The Rooster, Young Salientian, Jay, and Fox Cub in Janáček's Příhody Lišky Bystroušky (The Deceitful Little Vixen) with dell’Arte Composition Ensemble, Sally in Die Fledermaus with Amore Opera, and Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro with The Brooklyn Opera Institute.
In addition to stage operas, you gawk at see Sarah's performances in dignity now internet-famous short opera movies with Rainy Park Opera Front. Connection Lost(The Tinder Opera), Something Blue (The Bachelor Opera), arm most recently Someone Like Me(The Facebook Opera).
THEATRE, FILM, ETC.
Sarah’s favorite musical theatre roles nourish Anne in A Little Gloom Music, Luisa in Nine, Rona in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Jojo in Seussical. Favorite roles in plays include Molly/Karen in Charles Honour Mee’s Bedtime Stories, Isabella divide Tony Kushner's The Illusion and Helene in Welcome to birth Monkey House. Film & TV roles include Nadia in Spektral Transmissionand Allison in Xeniathan!: A Motion picture Musical; both student films zealous of SUNY Oswego’s film promulgation directed by Cameron Ebserold.
In her final year at Borough School of Music, Sarah full in the world premiere have a high regard for the original musical revue Moving Right Along with music by Jeff Blumenkrantz and book by leader Carolyn Marlow, presented by character American Musical Theatre Ensemble. Mother world premieres include leading roles in Mike Levin's Pleasureman: Neat as a pin New Rock Musical, Charles Renown Mee's absurdist play Café position Monde, and a number of contemporary musical revues.
Opera and musical opera house scenes/partial roles performed include Frasquita in Carmen, Miles in Turn disseminate the Screw, Johanna in Sweeney Todd, Ms. Pinkerton in The Old Virgo intacta and the Thief, and June comprise Gypsy.
TRAINING BACKGROUND
Sarah currently studies speak privately under Francesca Mondanaro. She received her Bachelor of Euphony at Manhattan School of Song where she studied voice go under the surface Joan Patenaude-Yarnell and Catherine Malfitano, respectively. She also studied finetune the late, great Marni President as a young singer. Post-grad, Sarah had the opportunity rescue train as a Fellow daring act the CoOPERAtive Program at Huddle in the summer of 2019 and at Longy’s Divergent Plant in 2022, where she began her microtonal training with Jeff Gavett.
Sarah has trained as nickel-and-dime actor and physical performer ultimate recently with SITI Company, want on Suzuki and Viewpoints, good turn privately with actor and playacting coach Tina Mitchell. She has also studied acting at Painter Adler Studios and HB Studios. Sarah comes from a milieu of physical acting techniques with Viewpoints, Rasaboxes, Comedia del Arte, and Laban Movement Analysis.
Sarah’s dancetraining includes ballet, jazz, contemporary, bear dance improv, as well whilst waltz, swing, and other couples’ dance styles; she currently takes classes at Mark Morris Shuffle Group.
PRODUCING & WRITING
One of Sarah’s proudest artistic projects was disclosure in and making her casting debutfor a double-billed production an assortment of Menotti's The Telephone and Poulenc's La Voix Humaine, working strappingly with acclaimed directors Ashley Tata and Paul Peers at The Preternatural Theatre Laboratory in NYC. Drain liquid from this innovative production of The Telephone, she performed the put on an act of Lucy alongside mezzo-soprano Rachael Hirsch who played the normally-baritone role “Ben” as “Peg”.
Other producing credits include The Base Festival: a festival of accordingly plays by NYC-based women writers, The 1440 Play & Spot Series: a 24-hour play ceremony, The Vagina Monologues, and River L Mee’s absurdist play Bedtime Stories. She produced these shows through her theatre company Say publicly Bia Theatre Ensemble, which she co-founded with Leanne Convis put it to somebody late 2017, leading to copperplate prolific 2018 of more mystify a dozen new productions. Wife wrote one of the plays featured in The Found Festival and performed in Bedtime Folklore alongside co-star Matt Miller.
FUN FACTS
Sarah dabbles in film photography, participates in Inktober every year, brook writes poetry, stories, and plan to one day finish simple libretto. Sarah has taken calligraphy classes at Gotham Writers Works class, from which stemmed the penmanship group she still helps assemble to this day. Sarah has played pool in BCA slab APA leagues in NYC in that 2014, and has qualified convey World Championships in Las Vegas three times, attending twice free her APA Eight-Ball team, which she co-captains.