American soprano Sarah Nalty is noted for her adventurous and versatile performances, having performed opera and art song spanning the Renaissance to the 21st century, and in over a dozen languages. Her recent highlights include covering the title role in Rusalka with New Jersey Opera Theater, Stella (cover) in Viardot’s Le dernier sorcier with Bard Music Festival, Soprano soloist in Britten’s Les Illuminations with Euterpe Ensemble, and William F. Buckley in a work-in-progress performance of Jeffrey Lependorf’s opera American Terror at Hudson Hall.

From 2022-24, Sarah was a member of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard Conservatory. While a student there, her operatic repertoire included Rosa in Rumshinsky’s Yiddish operetta Shir Hashirim (with YIVO Institute for Jewish Research), Minerve in Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers, and scenes performances as Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) and Marschallin (Die Rosenkavalier). She also appeared in concert in Kurtág’s Messages of the Late Miss R.V. Troussova and Saariaho’s From the Grammar of Dreams, both part of the school’s annual Kurtág Festival. In 2023, she was a finalist in Bard’s Concerto Competition, singing Britten’s Les Illuminations at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.

Other career highlights include a residency at the Berkeley-Bucknell Chamber Music Collective Festival in 2023, where she sang Lieder by Fanny Mendelssohn and scenes from Le nozze di Figaro (Contessa), all with period instruments. In 2021, she performed Elle in La voix humaine at New England Conservatory, as part of an outdoor socially-distanced performance on the steps of Jordan Hall.

An avid recitalist, Sarah has performed numerous Liederabende in the Hudson Valley, Boston, Ann Arbor, and Graz, Austria. While attending the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, she was awarded the prestigious Harold Heiberg Liedersänger Preis for her performances of German Lieder. Sarah has a particular affinity for Eastern European repertoire, and often performs underperformed works from Czech, Polish, and Ukrainian composers such as Vítězslava Kaprálová, Grażyna Bacewicz, and Yakiv Stepovyi.

Born in Silver Spring, Maryland, Sarah grew up singing with the Peabody Children’s Chorus, with whom she sang numerous performances with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop. She credits these experiences with affirming her love of singing and classical music. She holds a Bachelor’s of Music from New England Conservatory and a Master’s from Bard College, where she studied with Stephanie Blythe and Kayo Iwama. She is currently based in Astoria, Queens and studies with Bryce McClendon.