Grange Park Opera

A Vocal Coach for Sky Arts’ Anyone Can Sing, Sarah Pring studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at the National Opera Studio. She began her career at Glyndebourne, gaining the Sir John Christie Award, and also the ESSO Touring Award, for roles including Despina Cosi fan Tutte.

Recent engagements have included The Old Lady Candide for Blackheath Halls Opera, Mrs Grose The Turn of the Screw at the Ustinov Studio of Bath Theatre Royal, Mistress Bentson Lakmé for Chelsea Opera Group, Mrs Alexander Satyagraha for English National Opera, Mamma Lucia Cavalleria Rusticana for Cambridge Philharmonic Society and West Green House Opera. La Frugola Il tabarro, La zia principessa Suor Angelica and Zita Gianni Schicchi for Copenhagen Opera Festival and Madame Larina Eugene Onegin for West Green Opera, Mother Mavra for The Royal Opera, London and Scottish Opera and further performances as Annina La traviata for The Royal Opera, London.

Current engagements include Mrs Doc A Quiet Place for The Royal Ballet and Opera, London, further performances as Glasha Kát‘a Kabanová for Glyndebourne, Mamma Lucia Cavalleria Rusticana and Rosa Silvano for Chelsea Opera Group and Nan New Year for Birmingham Opera Company. Concert engagements include Elgar’s Sea Pictures and Verdi’s Requiem at Blackheath Halls, both The Musicmakers and Sea Pictures in Bishopwearmouth Abbey and Rachmaninov Vespers for Bournemouth Symphony Chorus.

Her performance as Annina La traviata with Renée Fleming in Richard Eyre’s production for The Royal Opera House, is available on Opus Arte DVD / Blu Ray. She has also sung this role with Ekaterina Bakanova, Hrachuhí Bassénz, Diana Damrau, Angela Gheorghiu, Venera Gimadieva, Anush Hovhannisyan, Ermonela Jaho and Anna Netrebko in London, as well as on tour in Japan. Her other roles at Covent Garden have included Lise Cyrano de Bergerac, Glasha Katya Kabanova, Nurse Boris Godunov (now available on Opus Arte DVD / Bu Ray), Berta Il barbiere di Siviglia, Madame Larina Eugene Onegin and Giovanna Rigoletto.

For English National Opera, she has sung Mrs Grose in the Olivier Award Nominated production of The Turn of the Screw at Regent’s Park Open-Air Theatre, Alisa Lucia di Lammermoor, Mrs Alexander Satyagraha and Mayor’s Wife Jenůfa, and her repertoire has further included Mrs Grose The Turn of the Screw for Nevill Holt Opera, Marquise de Berkenfeld La Fille du Régiment, Mamma Lucia Cavalleria Rusticana, Zita Gianni Schicchi, La Frugola Il tabarro and Madame Larina Eugene Onegin for Opera Holland Park, Alisa Lucia di Lammermoor, Mayor’s Wife Jenůfa and Mary Der fliegende Holländer for Scottish Opera, Lady Bertram Mansfield Park for The Grange Festival, Marthe Faust and Ragonde Le Comte Ory for the Dorset Opera Festival, Marthe Faust (also at the Birgitta Festival, Tallinn), Mother / Witch Hansel and Gretel, Cleaning Lady The Makropulos Case and Trigestra The Fortunes of King Croesus for Opera North, Taven Mireille for New Sussex Opera, Gamekeeper’s Wife / Owl The Cunning Little Vixen for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Marcellina Le nozze di Figaro and Waltraute Die Walküre for Welsh National Opera, Zita Gianni Schicchi for Copenhagen Opera Festival and Singapore Lyric Opera,  Madame Larina Eugene Onegin for Grange Park Opera. the Opéra de Caen and Staatsoper Stuttgart, Fricka Das Rheingold / Die Walküre for Saffron Opera Group and Mrs Grantham Ludd and Isis for ROH2.

Concert engagements have included Enrichetta I Puritani, The Nurse The Demon, Tsarina Christmas Eve and Eduige Guillaume Tell for Chelsea Opera Group, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 at the Queen’s University Arts Festival in Belfast and with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, the première of Ronald Corp’s Letters From Lony for Proms at St Jude’s (now available on Toccata Classics CD). Mahler Symphony No. 2 at London’s Barbican Centre, Mozart Requiem with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Verdi Requiem at the Snape Maltings. Her broadcasts have included Friday Night is Music Night for BBC Radio 2.

Conductors with whom she has worked included Karen Kamensek, Lada Valešová, Yves Abel, Mikhail Agrest, Maurizio Benini, Timothy Burke, Harry Bicket, Jiri Belolhávek, Alpesh Chauhan, Paul Daniel, Sir Mark Elder, Dan Ettinger, Edward Gardner, Sir Bernard Haitink, Michael Hofstetter, Jakub Hrusa, Vladimir Jurowski, Jan Latham-Koenig, Lothar Koenigs, Anthony Negus, Daniel Oren, Sir Antonio Pappano, David Parry, Toby Purser, Mark Shanahan, Stuart Stratford, Robin Ticciati, Antony Walker, Hilary Davan Wetton and Dominic Wheeler.