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Alice Stacpoole

Alice Stacpoole

Assistant Artist Manager

Representation

General Management with Askonas Holt (Excl. Canada) Partner manager Canada: Dean Artists Management

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About Sarah

Canadian soprano Sarah Dufresne was a member of the Jette Parker Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House from 2022-2024 and was named as an Associate Artist of The Mozartists for the 2023-2024 season.

Named as one of Canada’s Top 30 Classical Musicians Under 30 in 2022, Sarah's recent performances at the Royal Opera House include Lucia (The Rape of Lucretia), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Hirt (Tannhäuser), Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Voce dal Cielo (I and Tusnelda (Arminio). Other recent performances include Carmina Burana with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Rafael Payare, and Nora (Riders to the Sea) with the Montreal Opera. She has also performed with companies and orchestras across Canada, including Orchestre de l’Agora, Ottawa Choral Society and with Orchestre Métropolitain.

In 2022 Sarah was awarded the Second Prize (Aria division) at the Concours Musical International de Montréal and was praised for her “tremendous dramatic presence,” and “astonishing clarity and vocal dexterity” (Opera Canada).

Sarah is based in Canada

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General Management with Askonas Holt (Excl. Canada) Partner manager Canada: Dean Artists Management

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Season Highlights

Aug 2024
Lanaudiere Festival
Aida (High Priestess) Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Montreal Opera
Hamlet (Ophélie) Jacques Lacombe (conductor)
Dec 2024 - Dec 2024
Barbican, London
La rondine (Yvette) Antonio Pappano (conductor)

Video

Audio

  • Quatre Chansons de Jeunesse, "Pantomime", Debussy
    Recorded: 01 January 2025
  • Quatre Chansons de Jeunesse, "Clair de lune", Debussy
    Recorded: 01 January 2025
  • Quatre Chansons de Jeunesse, "Pierrot", Debussy
    Recorded: 01 January 2025
  • Quatre Chansons de Jeunesse, "Apparition", Debussy
    Recorded: 01 January 2025

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Selected Repertoire

BernsteinCandide (Cunegonde)
BizetCarmen (Frasquita)
BrittenAlbert Herring (Miss Wordsworth)   •   A Midsummer's Dream (Tytania)   •   Rape of Lucretia (Lucia)
Donizetti L’elisir d'amore (Adina, Giannetta)
HandelAcis and Galatea (Galatea)   •   Alcina (Morgana)   •   Ariodante (Ginevra)   •   Arminio (Tusnelda)   •   Jephtha (Iphis)
Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel (Dew Fairy)
Janacek Cunning Little Vixen (Vixen)
Lizée No One's Safe (Rebecca Marshall)
MassenetWerther (Sophie)
MozartDie Zauberflote (Pamina), (Papagena)   •   Don Giovanni (Zerlina)   •   La Clemenza di Tito (Servilia)   •   Le Nozze di Figaro (Barbarina)
PucciniLa rondine (Yvette)
RavelL’enfant et les sortileges (The Nightingale)
Thomas Hamlet (Ophélie)
Vaughan Williams Riders to the Sea (Nora)
Verdi Don Carlo (Voce dal cielo)   •   Rigoletto (Gilda)
Wagner Tannhauser (Shepherd)
Weill Street Scene (Mrs. Fiorentino)

News

Press

  • Die Liebe der Danae

    Bayerische Staatsoper
    Feb 2025

    • "Sarah Dufresne as Semele, Evgenya Sofnikova as Europa, Emily Sierra as Alkmene and Abery Amereau as Leda make an entertaining quartet of love-struck and mare-bitten ex-lovers."

    • Sarah Dufresne, Evgeniya Sotnikova, Emily Sierra and Avery Amereau are also musically on point as Semele, Europa, Alkmene and Leda. Otherwise, there is a lot of sophisticated directing routine to be seen, everything is well crafted.

    • The quartet of Jupiter's former ladies of the heart whirl charmingly through the scenes: Sarah Dufresne as Semele, Evgeniya Sotnikova as Europa, Emily Sierra as Alkmene and Avery Amereau as Leda.

    • The cast is excellent, from Christopher Maltman’s multi-faceted, Wotan-esque Jupiter and Andreas Schager’s endearing Midas to Sarah Dufresne, Evgeniya Sotnikova, Emily Sierra, and Avery Amereau in a formidably sexy, worldly-wise quartet as Jupiter’s ex-lovers Semele, Europa, Alkmene and Leda.

    • Special mention to the four hair-raising and quite funny conquests of Jupiter: Sarah Dufresne, Evgeniya Sotnikova, Emily Sierra and Avery Amereau. All, I repeat all, can boast of having very comprehensible German.

    • Mocking and futile, beautifully costumed, the four queens, whom Strauss always treats as a group, like a four-headed hydra in love trying to claim her divine lover, are remarkably played by Sarah Dufresne (Semele), Evgeniya Sotnikova (Europa), Emily Sierra (Alcmène) and Avery Amereau (Leda), a choral group that creates an impressive canon in the third act.

    • Jupiter's four ex-lovers, (Sarah Dufresne, Evgeniya Sotnikova, Emily Sierra and Avery Amereau) were also very expressive and witty in their phrasing.