SARAH FRYERMezzo-soprano
British mezzo soprano Sarah Fryer has sung extensively in Europe and in North America. Praised for her versatility and fine musicianship, Ms. Fryer has been a guest of many festivals including Aldeburgh; Nancy ALBERT HERRING, Laura IOLANTA with conductor Steuart Bedford, BACH CANTATAS with George Malcolm, Dartington, Berlioz’ L’ENFANCE DU CHRIST with John Alldis, Taormina Arte, Edelknabe LOHENGRIN with Giuseppe Sinopoli, Murcia WEIHNACHTSORATORIUM and the Three Choirs Festival. She has appeared with many notable orchestras and choirs including the Hallé Orchestra, Bruckner’s TE DEUM with Stanislav Skrowaczewski, The Bach Choir, London with Sir David Willcocks and David Hill, Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico, Beethoven/Mozart with conductor Enrique Batiz, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Beethoven’s MISSA SOLEMNIS, The Hanover Band, Florilegium and the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Sarah Fryer made her Bayreuth Festival debut in 1993 singing the ‘Alt solo’ in PARSIFAL conducted by James Levine. She returned for the next five festivals (1994-1998) to sing Wellgunde DAS RHEINGOLD and GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (James Levine) and ‘I Knappe’ in PARSIFAL (Giuseppe Sinopoli). She also took part in video recordings of both GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG and PARSIFAL for Unitel. Other operatic engagements include Flora LA TRAVIATA for Opera Ireland (David Lloyd-Jones) and Wellgunde GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG for L’Opéra de Nantes (Guido Ajmones-Marsan), in Turin in concert performances with National Symphony of RAI (Eliahu Inbal) and at La Scala, Milan (Riccardo Muti).
Ms Fryer has recorded the alto solo in the Rachmaninov VESPERS with the Philharmonia Chorus and she sings the Angel in a recording of Elgar’s THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, directed by David Hill. Notable European concert engagements include Haydn’s HARMONIEMESSE and Bach’s MATTHÄUS PASSION with The Bach Choir at the Royal Festival Hall, London and two appearances at The Three Choirs Festival in a new commission by Francis Pott and in Elgar’s CORONATION ODE.
Performances in Canada include the Duruflé REQUIEM at the Calgary Organ Festival and for Festival Vancouver, Schubert’s MASS IN A FLAT with the CBC Orchestra under Helmuth Rilling and the Calgary Philharmonic with Mario Bernardi, and the Verdi REQUIEM, Beethoven’s SYMPHONY No. 9, De Falla’s THREE CORNERED HAT and Prokofiev’s ALEXANDER NEVSKY with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra under Bramwell Tovey. Other notable peformances include Beethoven’s SYMPHONY No. 9 and Mozart’s REQUIEM with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra, ELIJAH with the Vancouver Symphony, Bach’s MASS IN B MINOR with the Vancouver Bach Choir, Haydn and Bruckner with the Kathaumixw Festival in British Columbia and FOUR POEMS OF ST. TERESA OF AVILA by Lennox Berkeley, with The Southern Sinfonia in Britain.
