Sarah Chae

Biography

Sarah Chae, soprano, born in Seoul/Korea, trained as a Young Artist at the National Opera Studio (NOS), London in 2022/23.

She has performed scenes from Händel’s Semele Iris, Mozart’s La finta giardiniera Serpetta in a baroque production, in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale Norina, in Verdi’s Falstaff Nanetta and Giulietta from Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi in collaboration with Welsh National Opera and NOS. She worked with Opera North, as part of the YA programme, and performed scenes from Coult’s Violet in the title role Violet and in Dove’s Pig Younger Sister. In a production with Scottish Opera and NOS, she sang in Mozart’s Schauspieldirektor Mademoiselle Silberklang, in Weber’s Freischütz Ännchen and in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos Zerbinetta. In 2023 Sarah sang Calloandra in the UK premiere of Salieri’s La fiera di Venezia with Bampton Classical Opera and also covered the role of Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata at Oxford Opera.
 Previous roles include Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen Vixen, in Turnage’s Coraline Coraline at the Staatstheater Saarbrücken, in Puccini's La Bohème Musetta, Britten's The Rape of Lucretia Lucia at the Saar University of Music, and Mendelssohn’s 2nd Symphony Lobgesang. In 2021, she had an engagement with the Theater Trier as Amore in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea.

Sarah Chae was awarded a Richard Wagner Scholarship in Bayreuth in 2019 and she received the special award for participating in a production of Stara Zagora State Opera in 2019. In 2021, she won 3rd prize in the III European Competition in Torino, Italy. She won a special prize in the 16th International Vocal Competition Gabriela Beňačková in Jihlava, Czech Republic in 2023

In 2018, she finished her Bachelor’s degree at Saar University of Music, Saarbrücken, and graduated from their Master’s program in 2020, during which time she studied at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatorio in Florence/Italy, studying with Prof. Donatella Debolini from 2019 to 2020.