Join us for an evening of song featuring FAC Artist-in-Residence Sarah Jane McMahon, accompanied by Sherry Parrini. Sarah's program will delight the audience and she showcases her world-class voice.
Praised by The New York Times as “bright, active, and fastidiously musical” and by Opera News as having “a golden sound,” New Orleans native Sarah Jane McMahon performs with the world's top opera companies and symphony orchestras. Recent highlights include appearances at the prestigious Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Monica in The Medium and Micaela in Carmen with New Orleans Opera and Opera Idaho, and concert performances with The Colorado Symphony, The Williamsburg Symphony, and Heartlands Festival Orchestra. Sarah Jane has appeared with the Los Angeles Opera, Dallas Opera, Arizona Opera, Virginia Opera, the Washington Concert Opera, Des Moines Opera, and Bard Summerscape Festival among many others. Concert credits include the San Francisco Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, Santo Domingo Festival, Carnegie Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Cleveland Pops, Canadian Opera Orchestra, the Portland Symphony, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Midland Odessa Symphony, Amarillo Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Winston Salem Symphony, and concerts opposite Placido Domingo. With the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center, she performed as Galatea in Acis and Galatea, earning her the coveted Kolozsvár Award, in Purcell’s King Arthur, and as Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance for which The New York Times called her “the most polished and flexible singer in the cast” and “a deft comic actress.”