Mexican-American mezzo-soprano Sarah Saturnino is quickly becoming known for her versatility and “range of vocal colors” (Miami Herald). Recent roles include: Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro and Carmen in The Tragedy of Carmen with Shreveport Opera, Vera Boronel in The Consul with Baltimore Concert Opera, Maddalena in Rigoletto with Painted Sky Opera, Mutter in Hänsel und Gretel and Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte with Yale Opera.

Miss Saturnino will join the Domingo-Colburn-Stein young artist program at LA Opera for their 2022-2023 season where she will sing the role of Emilia in Otello. She was the Resident Artist Program's Mezzo Soprano for Shreveport Opera where she sang the role of Marcellina in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro in fall of 2021. In 2022 she sang the roles of Carmen in Peter Brook’s adaptation of The Tragedy of Carmen and Maddalena in Verdi’s Rigoletto. In 2020 she performed in Art After Dark where she sang Maria in Feel the Tango, Angie in Pepito, and Julia Child in Bon Appétit. She also sang in their recorded production of Rigoletto as Maddalena and Giovanna in 2021.

Miss Saturnino is an Apprentice Artist with Santa Fe Opera, where she is covering Carmen in Carmen, and Meg Page in Falstaff. During the 2021 summer season with Santa Fe Opera, she covered the roles of Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro and Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She is an alumna of The Chautauqua Opera Company’s Young Artist program. Miss Saturnino has performed with the Miami Summer Music Festival as Le Prince Charmant in Massenet’s Cendrillon and was a soloist in Handel's Messiah with the Wintergreen Performing Arts Festival, as well as multiple concerts in Tuscany, Italy with Bel Canto in Tuscany.

Miss Saturnino received the Campbell/Wachter Scholarship Award from the Santa Fe Opera for the 2021 season. She received the Faculty Award from the Vann Vocal Institute in 2020*. She was a first place winner of the Pacific North West Competition in Eugene, Oregon in 2019. She has placed in the top ten in the Brava! Competition two years (2018/2019) in a row and was a Grand Finalist in the Talents of the World Competition in 2018.

She has performed in many concert works including Beethoven 9, Handel’s Let God Arise, and O sing unto the Lord, and Messiah. She has also sung in recitals for the Trinity on Wall Street, Pipes at One and The Chautauqua Opera Company’s Emerging Artists Recital. She has also sung Bernstein’s Candide in concert as The Old Lady with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra.

Miss Saturnino graduated cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts: Vocal Performance and a Music Industry Minor in 2016. Roles at UCLA include: Jenny in Down in the Valley, Patre in L’enfant et less sortilèges, Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, The Old Lady in Candide, and Le Prince Charmant in Cendrillon. She graduated with honors from the Yale University School of Music with a Masters of Music in 2018. Roles at Yale included: Mütter in Hänsel und Gretel, Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos, Bertarido in Rodelinda, and Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking. She continued to work and study at the Potomac Vocal Institute where she studied under the world-renowned Elizabeth Bishop and Arianna Zuckerman in the inaugural class of the Professional Development Program. Roles in that program included: Charlotte in Werther*, Cesare in Giulio Cesare*, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Quickly in Falstaff and Charlotte in A Weekend in the Country.

In spring of 2022, Miss Saturnino made her house debut with Opera San Antonio as Maddalena in their production of Verdi’s Rigoletto. In the spring of 2023 she will be making her house debut with Amarillo Opera in the same role. Miss Saturnino is a choreographer, fight director and intimacy director. Her work includes Feel the Tango, Speed Dating, and Le Nozze di Figaro for Shreveport Opera. She works with Sordelet Inc. as a Fight and Intimacy Director. She is also trained in fencing.

*Performances canceled due to the Covid 19.