Praised for her “pointed, wonderfully appealing lyric [mezzo] soprano” (Opera Today), Elizabeth Sarian was recently a National Semifinalist in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition.

 

Elizabeth’s 2022/2023 season will see exciting debuts with Annapolis Opera as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and with Opera Baltimore as Siébel in Gounod’s Faust. Sarian will also join The Glimmerglass Festival to cover the title role in Handel’s Rinaldo. Earlier this season, Elizabeth covered Suzuki in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Atlanta Opera and enjoyed several appearances as the Alto Soloist in Handel’s Messiah.

 

Last season, Elizabeth was a member of Opera Theater of Saint Louis’ Gerdine Young Artist Program and made her debut with the company as Mama in Stewart Wallace’s Harvey Milk Reimagined. A proud alumna of The Atlanta Opera Studio, Elizabeth also returned last season to perform as Nireno in Giulio Cesare. Her previous credits with Atlanta included her portrayal of Flora in La Traviata, The Page in Salome, Tisbe in La Cenerentola and Sister Lillianne in Dead Man Walking.

 

Sarian holds both a Graduate Performance Diploma and her Master of Music in Vocal Performance and Vocal Pedagogy from The Peabody Institute at John Hopkins University and is an alumna of the prestigious Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Singer Program, the Central City Opera Bonfils-Stanton Artist Training Program, and the Opera North Resident Artist Program.

 

Sarian is a native of Long Island, New York.