Finalist, Elgar/Spedding Memorial Lieder Prize (2019)

Soprano, 52me Toulouse Concours International de Chant (2019)

Sara Nealley, soprano, is a native of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, USA. She completed her undergraduate studies in Vocal performance at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Sara is in her second year of Opera Study at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where she studies with Wilma MacDougall. She has recently appeared as Young Violetta in Fife Opera's production of La Traviata, as the First Witch in the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s production of Dido and Aeneas, and as La Ciesca in the Conservatoire’s production of Gianni Schicchi. Other previous roles include Hanna Glawari in Lehar’s The Merry Widow and Krystyna Zywulska in the revised edition premiere of Jake Heggie’s Out of Darkness. Hear next operatic appearance will be as Lucia in the RCS production of Britten's The Rape of Lucretia.

Sara’s concert work has included concert engagements in both Glasgow and Edinburgh since moving to Scotland. Stateside, she has performed David Liptak’s Folgore’s Months with the Eastman Wind Ensemble and in the World Premiere of Lori Laitman’s “Are Women People?” for Eastman’s Anniversary Celebration of Susan B. Anthony.

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