Sarah Fleiss

Oct 2022 WHYY feature: “Captivating Voice”

May 2023: Opera News, Ariodante
“Sarah Fleiss, nearly ready for professional stages as Ginevra… [with] her fluid tone and pinpoint accuracy furnished consistent enjoyment, and commanded a reliable, authentic trill. She acted credibly in joy and sorrow.”

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“For example, Ms. Fleiss put so much intention into her performance of two of Samuel Barber’s Hermit Songs that we felt an understanding of the appeal of solitude in ‘The Desire for Hermitage’. This was paired with the contrasting companionate pleasure of ‘The Monk and His Cat’. Let it be noted that Ms. Fleiss’ diction was so perfect that we understood every word. This cannot be said of most American singers who tend to slur their words when singing English.”

“Sarah Fleiss portrayed a cunning Rosina in ‘Dunque io son’ from Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Her coloratura was effortless, and her controlled breathing supported the slower sections. Her convincing stage whisper revealed her schemes, shattering the damsel-in-distress stereotype.”

– 360 ° OF OPERA

“The solos were particularly poignant, especially those given to Ms. Fleiss which seemed to emphasize the woes of a maiden unsuccessful at love–“An Jeder Hand die Finger” in which a maiden has bestowed all her rings on worthless men, and in “Rosen steckt mir an die Mutter”, in which she sees herself wilting and stripped of leaves like a rose. This characterization would be repeated at the conclusion of the evening when she sang a most pathetic Gilda in the quartet from Verdi’s Rigoletto.”

– VOCE DI MECHE, Curtis on Tour 92Y

Britten: Turn of the Screw, Governess*

Charpentier: Les arts florissants, La Poésie

Charpentier: La descente d’Orphée aux enfers, Proserpine

Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore, Adina (cover)

Guettel: The Light in the Piazza, Clara

Handel: Ariodante, Ginevra

Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen, Vixen

Menotti: The Medium, Monica

Massenet: Manon, Manon

Mozart: Così fan tutte, Despina

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, Pamina

Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito, Annio

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, Susanna

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Rosina (cover)

Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites, Blanche*

Rogers & Hammerstein: South Pacific, Nellie

Roger’s & Hammerstein: The King and I, Anna

Roger’s & Hammerstein: The Sound of Music, Maria

Scarlatti: Il giardino di rose, La Speranza

Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, Sophie*

Verdi: Rigoletto, Gilda*

Bach: St. Matthew Passion*

Barber: Hermit Songs (selections)

Beach: Three Shakespeare Songs

Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem

Brahms: Neue Liebeslieder Waltzer

Chausson: Chanson perpétuelle

Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis

De Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas

Dvořák: Te Deum

Faure: Requiem

Handel: L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato

Handel: Messiah

Tania Leon: In the Fields

Alma Mahler: Fünf Lieder

Poulenc: Gloria

Schubert: “Der Hirt auf dem Felsen” (“Shepherd on the Rock”)

Robert Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben