About this Artist

Soprano Sara Hershkowitz is a native of Los Angeles and fascinates the musical world with her enormous stage presence and range of repertoire. As a principal artist at the Bremen Opera from 2007to 2012, she sang roles including Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier and Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute. She performed the Governess in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Autonoe in Henze’s The Bassarids at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and Servilia in Gluck’s La clemenza di Tito at the Theater an der Wien. She thrilled audiences and critics alike with her own daring and controversial staging of György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre with the Noord Netherlands Orchestra in 2017, followed by performances with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony, and at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. In 2019, she received rave reviews for her interpretation of Soprano 1 in Luigi Nono’s Al gran sole carico d’amore at Theater Basel. She debuted with the LA Phil in John Cage’s Europeras and the Gürzenich-Orchestra Cologne in Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre in celebration of the composer’s 100th anniversary in 2023. She sang Vivaldi’s Gloria with the Detroit Symphony, Unsuk Chin’s Acrostic-Wordplay at the Bergen International Festival, and Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Five Images After Sappho with the London Philharmonia. She studied at the Manhattan School of Music and is an alumna of the Académie Lyrique at Festival Aix-en-Provence and the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project.