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Canadian soprano Sarah Cambidge is an alumna of the world-renowned Adler Fellowship at San Francisco Opera. During the 2024-25 season, she returns to San Francisco Opera to perform the role of Aunt Lydia in Poul Ruders & Paul Bentley's The Handmaid's Tale. In concert, she debuts with the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
The 2023-2024 season featured Ms. Cambidge’s return to Switzerland as Helmwige in Opernhaus Zürich’s production of Die Walküre. Recent additions to her repertoire include covers of Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites at The Metropolitan Opera, and the roles of the Kaiserin in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Elsa in Wagner’s Lohengrin, and Leonora in Fidelio at San Francisco Opera.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ms. Cambidge was preparing Ghita in Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg for San Francisco Opera, and was set to make her Lyric Opera of Chicago debut as Ortlinde, while covering Sieglinde, in their 2020 cancelled Ring Cycle.
Sarah made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the Dama di Lady Macbeth in their 2019 production of Macbeth and covered the role of the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro. Recent and career highlights include her European debut as Chrysothemis in Richard Strauss’s Elektra at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and her French debut as Sieglinde in Die Walküre at Opéra National de Bordeaux. Past appearances with San Francisco Opera include her role debut as the Foreign Princess in Rusalka, the roles of Ortlinde and the 3rd Norn in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, directed by Francesca Zambello and conducted by Donald Runnicles, the Soprano Angel in Jake Heggie’s It’s a Wonderful Life, and the Fourth Maid in Elektra, in addition to covering the roles of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Chrysothemis in Elektra, and Freia in Das Rheingold. She also debuted the role of Amelia in Livermore Valley Opera’s production of Un ballo in maschera. Further concert appearances include the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915.
Ms. Cambidge was a National Semifinalist at the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and was named the winner of the Denver Lyric Opera Guild competition. She obtained her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in music from the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music.
