Lauded by the Seattle Weekly for her “perfectly polished and vivacious” singing, American Mezzo-Soprano Sarah Heltzel made her Seattle Opera debut in Augus 2005 as Siegrune in Stephen Wadsworth’s acclaimed Der Ring des Nibelungen. Heltzel made a splash by replacing an ill Rhinedaughter in Das Rheingold at the last minute, singing Flosshilde from the orchestra with great success. As a member of Seattle Opera’s 2004-05 Young Artist Program, Heltzel’s performance of Cherubino in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro was praised by the Seattle Times as “delightful and suitably mercurial.”
While at Manhattan School
of Music, where she completed her Master of Music and Professional Studies
Certificate, Heltzel made her Alice Tully Hall debut with the New York
Symphonic Ensemble as the 2003 recipient of the Panasonic Harmony Award.
Credits include Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) with the Manhattan School of Music
Opera Theater, Mère Marie (Dialogues
des Carmélites) with the Israel Vocal Arts Institute, and Second Lady
(Die Zauberflöte) at Manhattan School of Music.
Ms. Heltzel was a
finalist and grant recipient in the 2005 Gerda Lissner Foundation
competition, and a winner in the 2004 Sun Valley Opera Competition and the
2002 Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition (Junior division). Other roles
include Giulietta in Les Contes
d’Hoffmann, la Messaggera in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, and the title role in