The Catalan soprano Sara Blanch was born in Darmós, studied at the Conservatori del Liceu in Barcelona and is currently advised by Mariella Devia. Following her acclaimed debut in Albert Carbonell’s Lisístrata in Barcelona she performed at various Spanish theatres in operas such as Britten’s The Little Sweep, Donizetti’s Rita, Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, Pergolesi’s La serva padrona and Rossini’s La cambiale di matrimonio and L’occasione fa il ladro. She made her international debut in 2013 as the Contessa di Folleville (Il viaggio a Reims) at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.
Highlights of the 2024/25 season include(d) performances as Fiorilla (Il turco in Italia) at the Opéra National de Lyon, Adele (Le Comte Ory) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos) at the Vienna State Opera, Ophélie (Hamlet) at the Teatro Regio in Turin and Aspasia (Mitridate, re di Ponto) in Madrid and Salzburg.
Other important roles in her repertory include Norina (Don Pasquale), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Elvira (L’italiana in Algeri), Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), Marie (La Fille du régiment), Léïla (Les Pêcheurs de perles), Anne Trulove (The Rake’s Progress) and the title roles of Lucia di Lammermoor and Matilde di Shabran.
Her engagements have taken her to renowned opera houses and to international festivals, among them the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, Milan, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, the Cologne Opera, and the Festival Castell de Peralada, the Rossini Festival in Wildbad, the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Chorégies d’Orange and the Salzburg Festival.
As a concert soloist, her appearances have included Messiah at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and a Mahler concert with the Staatskapelle Dresden under Daniele Gatti, in which she sang the solo part in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony.
Sara Blanch is a prize-winner of various competitions, among them the Concurs Internacional de Cant Montserrat Caballé (2014), the Josep Mirabent i Magrans in Sitges (2015) and the Tenor Viñas Competition (2016).
