Award-winning mezzo soprano Sarah Denbee is based in London. She sang with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera Chorus for their 2016 season and is delighted to be returning to Glyndebourne for the 2017 season.
Sarah has previously sang in the Chorus at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in Gluck's Orphée et Euridice, she is on the Extra Chorus lists at both Opera North and Scottish Opera, and tours regularly with Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Monteverdi Choir. She is an experienced concert soloist and recently performed step out solos with the London Symphony Orchestra in Europe and at the Barbican, and she sang Erster Geist in Schumann's Manfred with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival.
Please see Diary for upcoming performances.
Commendations/Reviews:
'Sarah has a strikingly individual voice of real quality...she sings with real authority and persuasiveness' (Sir John Eliot Gardiner
'The Handel was a real tour de force with terrific drama, excellent control of coloratura and very good ornamentation' (Stephen Varcoe)
'Sarah Denbee projects veiled power as Fanny [Price]' (The Independent)
‘Sarah Denbee made a charming Dorabella, still the more skittish one but also with a core of inner strength. Her first aria, Smanie implacabili was extremely impressive’. (Robert Hugill)
'...a sweet voiced Fanny Price, singing with tremendous power'
(Keith Clarke, Musical America Worldwide)
'Sarah Denbee’s brilliantly bizarre Witch succeeds in being both humourous and un-nerving in equal measure... Denbee shows a real connection to the material and puts the audience in the slightly odd paradox of rooting simultaneously for and against her – a difficult skill indeed for any performer' (Edinburgh 247)
'...rich and velvety voice...excellent diction and use of text, and very musical negotiation' (Hilary Summers)
'...Lovely voice, played the difficult cross-dressing part (Prince Orlofsky) with verve and confidence' (Jon Fox, NODA)
'Sarah Denbee brings a quiet dignity to the role of Fanny Price, with a beautifully rich voice that matches Fanny's underlying emotional maturity' (Fringe Opera)
'...Sarah Denbee's Dorabella, perfect for the role' (John Lanigan-O’Keeffe)
Sarah has previously sang in the Chorus at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in Gluck's Orphée et Euridice, she is on the Extra Chorus lists at both Opera North and Scottish Opera, and tours regularly with Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Monteverdi Choir. She is an experienced concert soloist and recently performed step out solos with the London Symphony Orchestra in Europe and at the Barbican, and she sang Erster Geist in Schumann's Manfred with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival.
Please see Diary for upcoming performances.
Commendations/Reviews:
'Sarah has a strikingly individual voice of real quality...she sings with real authority and persuasiveness' (Sir John Eliot Gardiner
'The Handel was a real tour de force with terrific drama, excellent control of coloratura and very good ornamentation' (Stephen Varcoe)
'Sarah Denbee projects veiled power as Fanny [Price]' (The Independent)
‘Sarah Denbee made a charming Dorabella, still the more skittish one but also with a core of inner strength. Her first aria, Smanie implacabili was extremely impressive’. (Robert Hugill)
'...a sweet voiced Fanny Price, singing with tremendous power'
(Keith Clarke, Musical America Worldwide)
'Sarah Denbee’s brilliantly bizarre Witch succeeds in being both humourous and un-nerving in equal measure... Denbee shows a real connection to the material and puts the audience in the slightly odd paradox of rooting simultaneously for and against her – a difficult skill indeed for any performer' (Edinburgh 247)
'...rich and velvety voice...excellent diction and use of text, and very musical negotiation' (Hilary Summers)
'...Lovely voice, played the difficult cross-dressing part (Prince Orlofsky) with verve and confidence' (Jon Fox, NODA)
'Sarah Denbee brings a quiet dignity to the role of Fanny Price, with a beautifully rich voice that matches Fanny's underlying emotional maturity' (Fringe Opera)
'...Sarah Denbee's Dorabella, perfect for the role' (John Lanigan-O’Keeffe)
