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Sarah toth is a performer and
educator

 

Sarah Toth is a vocal performer and music educator who seeks to bring healing, inspire dreams, and empower people to walk boldly forward in their own personal story.

With extensive operatic stage experience in America, Australia, and Europe, Sarah has performed numerous lyric soprano roles, and also a range of world premieres and experimental pieces. Highlights include singing the roles of Donna Elvira, Countess, Mimì, Donna Anna, Second Lady, Offenbach’s Eurydice, and Cimarosa’s Elisetta; performing in Strauss’s Elektra with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra; singing oratorio classics such as Messiah, Elijah, and Carmina Burana; and creating roles in Sydney Chamber Opera’s premieres of Mayakovsky and Victory Over the Sun (for the 2016 Sydney Biennale.) She has been recognized in vocal competitions in America and Australia, and has been awarded prize and study grant money by the Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Foundation.

Sarah’s collaborative work in creating new and experimental music-based theater has been featured in London’s Opera in the City Festival, Knoxville’s Marble City Opera, Sydney’s The Flying Nun by Brand X, and also in other sacred and historical spaces world-wide. Nero Monologues is Sarah’s first original pastiche chamber opera, collaborating with composer Peter James Learn and poet Geoffrey Lehmann to tell the story of Emperor Nero during the hour before his death. Sarah’s second original project, SEED, is an experiment in improvised and devised music-based theater, and draws influences from Baroque and electronic music.

Prior to classical singing, Sarah trained in a multi-lingual environment as a flautist in Hungary at the Franz Liszt Music School. Raised in a family of church musicians and athletes, Sarah first found her voice as a singer/songwriter, while also undertaking training as an ice hockey player. After a liberal arts undergraduate education in sociology and music at Greenville University, Sarah earned Masters Degrees in Vocal Performance at Ithaca College and later in Opera Studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.