Sarah Gabriel © Kate Mount
About SARAH GABRIEL
Described by Le Monde as ‘As fine an actor as she is a singer’ and praised in The Guardian for her ‘springwater vocals’, soprano Sarah Gabriel made her USA debut as Lucy Lockit (Britten The Beggar’s Opera) conducted by Lorin Maazel, and her European debut as Eliza Doolittle in Robert Carsen’s triumphant production of My Fair Lady at Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, opposite Alex Jennings, Nicholas le Prevost and Margaret Tyzack.
Sarah has given solo recitals of music spanning 300 years at Wigmore Hall, Glyndebourne, Dartington and Cheltenham International Festivals and has broadcast for BBC1, BBC2, BBC Radio 3, 4 and 6, NPR (USA), RTÉ, France Musique, and Radio France. Her current exploration of Berlin Cabaret from the 1930s includes a recital with acclaimed pianist Joanna MacGregor at Dartington Festival, concerts at The Sage Gateshead and Kings Place, London, opening the new season at Club Inégales in London and her new band, The Blue Hour, performing next at Crazy Coqs, Live at Zédel.
Operatic roles include Pamina (The Magic Flute), Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Morgana (Alcina), and Mandane (Artaserse), Jerusha (The Intelligence Park by Gerald Barry with The Crash Ensemble, Dublin) Le Feu (L’enfant et les sortileges) Anne Trulove (The Rake’s Progress), The Governess (Britten The Turn of the Screw, Budapest) and Elle (La Voix Humaine) for Cheltenham International Festival.
As a soloist with orchestra, she has performed the major oratorio repertoire, world premieres, operetta, musical theatre, and concert arias with ensembles including London Sinfonietta, Manchester Camerata, English Chamber Orchestra at venues including the Southbank Centre, Kings Place London, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, the Lowry Salford and Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.
Work with other disciplines includes the world premiere of Michael Daugherty’s Labyrinth of Love with Rambert Dance Company, live vocal improvisation to the 1928 film, The Passion of Joan of Arc with jazz ensemble, and her first feature film, Brigitte Rouan’s Tu honoreras ta mère et ta mère. Her plays A House on Middagh Street and Barlines were commissioned by the Britten-Pears Foundation and premiered during the 2018 and 2019 Aldeburgh Festivals.
She has been a guest teacher at Royal Academy of Music, Drama Centre London, Dartington International Summer School, E15 Acting School, Aldeburgh Young Musicians and NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Solo shows include Dorothy Parker takes a Trip (Oxford Playhouse), Lucrezia’s Last Breath (Handel-Hendrix), and in development: The Trial of Artemisia (a solo opera with composer Joseph Atkins), Wallis and Margaret: Parallel Lives (a musical play), and the third part of Steven Lally’s London Trilogy.
Further current and recent projects include Fly Me to the Moon, with science writer Lucy Hawking, Muses - a new one-hour show for the Aldeburgh Festival with novelist and classicist, Natalie Haynes, the UK premiere reading of Natalie Haynes’s A Thousand Ships at The British Museum for Cypriot theatre company Project Season Women, the world premiere of Howard Goodall’s latest work, The Gravity of Kindness, appearing as the vocalist on Sarah Angliss’s new album, Air Loom, vocalist on Romola Garai’s feature directorial debut, Amulet, on The Snail and the Whale for the BBC, and commissioning and singing The London Songbook (14 new songs by 14 composers).