Sarah Stage is a native of San Marcos, Texas and a graduate of the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music in Berea, Ohio. She is a classically-trained Soprano who enjoys singing a variety of genres including opera, art song, jazz/standards, and musical theatre.
She has studied with many great teachers including MaryBeth Smith, JR Fralick, Timothy Mussard and most recently Katherine Ciesinski of the Eastman School of Music. As a student, Sarah had the great fortune to perform and study culture, language, and music abroad in Portsmouth, England and Rome, Italy. Masterclasses and workshops also contributed greatly to her education, and gave her the opportunity to sing for and learn from Lucy Arner, Lise Lindstrom, and Martin Katz.
Performances with companies such as Operafestival di Roma, the Rome Festival, Cleveland Opera, and Opera Circle Cleveland include Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Lady Billows in Albert Herring, and Rose Alvarez in Bye Bye Birdie as well as productions of Le Nozze di Figaro, Suor Angelica, Hänsel und Gretel, The Coffee Cantata, and Turandot. She has also performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Community Chorus, Focus Festival Chorus, BW Bach Festival and Motet Choirs, and Jazztet. Sarah also enjoys performing for weddings and events, and formerly served as the staff soloist for the First Church of Christian Science, Berea.
Sarah currently resides in Penfield, just east of Rochester, New York and sings with the Rochester Oratorio Society. She enjoys travel & cooking and volunteers for Flower City Habitat for Humanity.
Sarah Stage, Soprano 