Praised for her "creamy mezzo" and "finesse" (San Diego Story) American Mezzo-Soprano, SarahAnn Duffy, is quickly establishing herself as an exciting communicator of repertoire spanning the baroque to the present day.

Events of the 2023/2024 season include Ms. Duffy’s return to Sarasota Opera as a Resident Artist as Mrs. Baggott in Little Sweep, and joining their winter season as Mercedes in Carmen  and as Laura in Luisa Miller. Events of the 2023 season include SarahAnn’s debut performances of Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Opera NEO, and joining Chautauqua Opera as a Studio Artist as Mrs. Lovett (cover) in Sweeney Todd.  SarahAnn also appeared as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and Zerlina (cover) in Don Giovanni with Sarasota Opera. She was additionally awarded the Helen Jepson Dellera Fellowship Award for an outstanding Studio Artist for their 2023 season.

Other events of the 2022/2023 season include Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte with Northern Lights Music Festival, Fidalma (cover) in Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto with Sarasota Opera, Nireno in Connecticut Lyric Opera’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto, and Sally Rogers in Paul Salerni’s The Life and Love of Joe Coogan. The 2021 season included beginning the year being named a San Diego District Encouragement Winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council competition and her return to Palm Beach Opera, having been selected to serve a second season as a Bailey Apprentice Artist where she sang the role of Second Spirit in Die Zauberflöte and covered the role of Romeo in their Discovery Series Production of I Capuleti e i Montecchi, and Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte. ​Other appearances include Smeton in Anna Bolena with Zerlina in Don Giovanni, both with dell’Arte Opera.

​With an equal passion for contemporary and concert repertoire, Ms. Duffy debuted at the National Sawdust in 2019 where she performed two New York premiere songs. Additional events to the 2019 season included the role of Ljubica in Svadba, Ana Sokolović’s Serbian opera composed in 2015, with the Bard College Conservatory Vocal Arts program curated by Dawn Upshaw, and she made her debut as the alto soloist in Handel’s Messiah with Classics on Hudson. Ms. Duffy has also held apprenticeships with Teatro Nuovo (2019) and Aspen Music Festival (2015).

Originally from Cortlandt Manor, NY, Ms. Duffy received her bachelor of music from the New England Conservatory and her master of music from the Vocal Arts Program at Bard College Conservatory.

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