Sarah Seunghwa Chae
Sarah Seungwha Chae is a Korean soprano born in 1991. Last year she graduated from the Hochschule für Musik Saar in Germany, and she is now continuing to study for a master’s degree. In opera she has sung to title role in Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen, Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème and Lucia in Britten’s Rape of Lucretia. In December 2018 she was awarded a Wagner Scholarship to go to Bayreuth. As a soloist with orchestra she has sung in Mendelssohn’s Second Symphony.
Repertoire
| Preliminary round | |
| G.F. Händel | Messiah: I know that my Redeemer liveth |
| R. Strauss | Kornblumen (Dahn) |
| C. Debussy | Pierrot (de Banville) |
| G. Verdi | Rigoletto: “Caro nome” (Gilda) |
| Semifinals | |
| J. Sibelius | Demanten på marssnön (Wecksell) |
| L. Dallapiccola | Quattro liriche di Antonio Machado |
| 1. La primavera ha venido | |
| 2. Ayer sone que veia a dios | |
| 3. Señor ya me arrancaste | |
| 4. La primavera ha venido | |
| J. Turina | Poema en forma de canciones (Campoamor) |
| 2. Nunca olvida | |
| 3. Cantares | |
| 4. Los dos miedos | |
| 5. Los locas por amor | |
| C. Gounod | Roméo et Juliette: “Amour ranime mon courage” (Juliette) |
| Final | |
| J. Massenet | Manon: “Je marche sur tous les chemins” (Manon Lescaut) |
| G. Donizetti | Lucia di Lammermoor: Regnava nel silenzio” (Lucia) |
Preliminary round