In the opera world, a mezzo-soprano is a female singing voice that falls between the higher-pitched soprano and the lower-pitched contralto. As a recording artist she’s released CDs on the Hyperion, Naxos, Bridge, Yarlung, GPR, and Sono Luminus record labels.Ī highlight of Cooke’s 2017–18 season includes singing the title role in the world premiere production of Nico Muhly’s Marnie with the English National Opera. and Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in New York City. As a recitalist she’s performed in prestigious venues, including The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. She’s also performed with acclaimed opera companies, including the Opéra National de Bordeaux and the San Francisco, Seattle, Dallas, and Houston Grand operas. Over the past decade Cooke has performed with leading ensembles, such as the New York, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong philharmonics the Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, and London symphony orchestras and the Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Royal Concertgebouw orchestras, among many others. She gained renown in 2008 when she starred as Kitty Oppenheimer in The Metropolitan Opera’s production of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic, with The New York Times raving that she sang the role “with aching, wistful intensity.” Raised in College Station, Texas, Cooke earned her undergraduate degree at Rice University in Houston and her master’s degree at The Juilliard School in New York City. The Chicago Tribune called her performance “mesmerizing,” and the Los Angeles Times praised her as a “compelling” singer. This past summer she starred as Laurene Powell Jobs in the highly acclaimed world premiere production of Mason Bates’s The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs at The Santa Fe Opera. This audience favorite, whom The New York Times has called “a luminous standout,” joins tenor Paul Groves for Schoenberg’s arrangement of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde led by Artist-in-Residence Alan Gilbert on August 13 and sings Fauré’s La chanson d’Ève with pianist Benjamin Hochman on August 15.Ī frequent presence on Santa Fe’s performing arts scene, Cooke last appeared at the Festival in 2014. Grammy Award–winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke returns to the Festival for two blockbuster performances at The Lensic Performing Arts Center in August 2018.
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