French-American mezzo-soprano Sarah Scofield is noted for her “playful performance” and wit onstage. This season, Ms. Scofield will return to Utah Opera singing Der Sandmännchen and covering the title role in Hänsel und Gretel, and singing Kate Pinkerton in Matthew Ozawa’s critically acclaimed production of Madama Butterfly. During her time as a resident artist with the company, Sarah made her professional operatic debut singing the Fox in a beloved production of Rachel Portman and Nicholas Wright’s The Little Prince. She also covered the role of Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro and performed the role of Myrtale in Thaïs. 

 

Sarah recently performed the role of Uta Hagen in a workshop of Scott Davenport’s opera Robeson in Moscow with Cincinnati Opera Fusion: New Works. While pursuing her Master’s degree at University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, she appeared as Narciso in Handel’s Agrippina, and in an unintentional survey of principal roles without names, Messaggiera (the Messenger) in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Die Zweite Dame (the second lady) in Die Zauberflöte, and The Foreign Woman in the The Consul. She also performed with Round About Opera for Kids, an outreach series through Cincinnati Opera.

 

On the concert stage, Scofield made her Utah Symphony debut singing as the alto soloist in Handel’s Messiah, and appeared as the alto soloist in Bach Cantatas 93 & 131 at the Christ Church Cathedral and in Vivaldi’s Gloria with Mount Saint Maryʼs Athenaeum Chorale. As a Stern Fellow with Songfest, Sarah premiered Anna Weesner’s 3 Simple Songs, appeared alongside Graham Johnson in a recital of Schubert Lieder and John Musto in Paris, Berlin, New York, and performed selections from Jake Heggie’s What I Miss the Most in a concert curated by the composer. 

 

Sarah regularly appears in performances which center disability, neurodiversity, and activism. This season, Sarah joins the Utah Symphony for Access to Music, a performance of opera scenes which is free and accessible to disabled students in the state of Utah. She sang in Beautiful Small Things with the Cincinnati Song Initiative as part of LYNX Project’s Amplify series, which performs settings of texts by non-speaking autistic youth, and performed Spectral Sights and Sounds with the Epiphany UMC Recital Series, a work detailing the lived experience of autism. She was also featured during the 2018 Lawrence University Refugee Symposium where she sang the U.S. premiere of Beneath the Azure Sky, a chamber piece that sets poems of Afghani refugee women prevented from learning to read and write. 

 

Ms. Scofield is a Utah District Winner and a recipient of the Rocky Mountain Region Patron Award through the Laffont Competition in 2023.  She also won second place in the Albino-Gorno Memorial Scholarship Competition. She has been part of training programs including Utah Opera, Songfest, and Music Academy of the West.

 

Sarah holds both a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in Voice from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.