Romanian-American soprano Sara LeMesh, praised by San Francisco Classical Voice for her "lush tone, exceptional high-register clarity, dramatic breadth, and fearless command," is equally at home on the opera stage and in the concert hall. An avid chamber musician, she is comfortable in a wide variety of genres and repertoire, and is also a devoted advocate of contemporary music. Garnering praise at international vocal competitions, Ms. LeMesh’s success includes a string of First Prize victories: at the PARTNERS for the Arts, Inc. National Opera Competition; the Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition at Carnegie Hall; and the Federation of the Art Song Fellowship Competition. She was also awarded Third Prize at the Zenith Opera Competition in Berlin and the Josep Palet International Singing Competition in Martorell, Spain.

Her 2025-26 season engagements include singing Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Annapolis Opera and debuting the role of Adele in Die Fledermaus with Boheme Opera New Jersey. In the spring, she joins the Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS), with whom she is a frequent guest artist, to perform in Ned Rorem’s Evidence of Things Not Seen. In May 2026, Ms. LeMesh will debut with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra as the soprano soloist in Orff’s Carmina Burana, conducted by JoAnn Falletta.

This past season, she was a 2024-25 Baumgartner Studio Artist with Florentine Opera, performing Galatea in Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Frasquita in Carmen, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, and Luigia in Donizetti’s Viva la mamma!. Her season ended with a full summer: She joined the Brooklyn Art Song Society for Schubert’s Shepherd on the Rock at the Lake George Music Festival in June 2025, and performed three high-profile roles with Opera North in Lebanon, NH, where she appeared as the Countess in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, The Rose in Rachel Portman’s The Little Prince, and Antonia in Mitch Leigh’s Man of La Mancha.

Recent highlights on the concert stage include Schubert’s Mass in C Major and Vivaldi’s Magnificat with the New England Symphonic Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, and the soprano solo in Max Richter’s Woolf Works with the American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House. She also joined the Brooklyn Art Song Society in the fall of 2024 for Songs of Lament and Praise by Gilda Lyons, and she partnered with Music For Food to perform Schoenberg’s Das Buch der hängenden Gärten at the New England Conservatory with pianist Seth Knopp.

Operatic highlights of past seasons include Marie in Donizetti’s La fille du régiment with the Opera Company of Middlebury (VT); Isabel Perón in Carlos Franzetti’s Corpus Evita with West Bay Opera; and Narcissa in Haydn’s Jupiter’s Journey to Earth with The Little Opera Theatre of New York. While a Resident Artist at Opera Naples, she sang the roles of Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore, Frasquita in Carmen, and Woman #1 in Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s Frida under the baton of Ramón Tebar.

A devoted recitalist and interpreter of concert works, she has performed throughout the United States and Europe at venues and festivals that include the Morgan Library & Museum, Aspen Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, Music Academy of the West, Fall Island V ocal ArtsSeminar, American Bach Soloists Academy, the YellowBarn summer chamber music festival, and International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum Salzburg, where she worked closely with noted Italian bass-baritone Ruggero Raimondi. While at Tanglewood, she was a soloist in Berlioz’s Les nuits d'été under the baton of Stéphane Denève and co-premiered Folk Songs by Bernard Rands. Ms. LeMesh is also one half of the piano-vocal duo Chordless, with pianist Allegra Chapman as her partner.