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Brisbane soprano Sarah Crane is the winner of several prestigious competitions, including Opera Foundation Australia’s 1997 German Operatic Award and The Australian Regional Final of the Metropolitan Opera Award which enabled her to be a finalist in the 1998 Metropolitan Opera Auditions in New York.

In 1997, Sarah graduated with a Post Graduate Diploma in Opera Performance from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and was a recipient of a Brisbane City Council Lord Mayor’s Performing Arts Fellowship as well as receiving the 1998 American Institute of Musical Studies Award from Opera Foundation Australia which gave her the opportunity to study in Graz, Austria.

In September 2001, Sarah took up residency as a full time soloist with the Freiburg Opera in Germany, singing the role of Pamina in The Magic Flute; Ginevra in Handel’s Ariodante; Janthe in Der Vampyr by Marschner and the soprano solo in Bruno Maderna’s Hyperion. During the season, Sarah also made guest appearances in the role of Pamina for the Basel Opera in Switzerland. She continued her engagements in Freiburg for the role of Marzelline in Fidelio; the title role in Bernedetto Marcello’s Arianna and Micaela in Bizet’s Carmen. She also performed the soprano solos for Martin’s Maria-Triptychon as well as for the Stabat Mater by Szymanowski with the Philharmonic Orchestra Freiburg.

Upon her return to Australia, she sang Juliette in Romeo et Juliette, Anna in Nabucco and Echo in The Love of the Nightingale for Opera Queensland and performed First Lady in The Magic Flute, First Wood Sprite in Rusalka and Oberto in Alcina for Opera Australia. Other recent engagements include Angelica in Orlando and Micaela for Opera Australia, Pamina for Opera Queensland and Handel’s Messiah for the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Sophie in Werther and Pamina for Opera Australia and Marzelline for Opera Queensland. She will return to Opera Queensland in 2010 for performances as Valencienne in The Merry Widow.