SARAH TRAUBEL

Sarah Traubel has emerged as one of the most fascinating vocal artists from Europe. Nominated as Opus Klassik’s 2022 “Singer of the Year”, the German soprano with her bright voice of exceptional projection is today a sought-after concert and opera singer in a wide range of repertoire, from Mozart to Wagner, Strauss and Shostakovich. Ms Traubel has collaborated with leading conductors including Daniele Gatti, Giampaolo Bisanti, Ingo Metzmacher, Markus Stenz, and Adam Fischer.

Highlights of her 2025-26 season include Sarah’s concert performances at the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Berlin Philharmonie, at Singapore’s Esplanade in a concert honouring the 60th independence anniversary of Singapore, and the Enescu Festival in Bucarest. 2024 saw her debut at the Mozaic Festival in California with Richard Wagner’s Wesendonck Songs, and invitations for a tour of Japan with a series of song recitals and concert performances. Recent concert highlights include Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs, European tours with Mahler's Symphony No. 4 and Rückert Lieder, and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14 (released on CD in 2025). She has repeatedly performed Richard Wagner's Wesendonck-Lieder, including with the Prague Symphony Orchestra conducted by Claus Peter Flor, and with the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Scott Yoo. Richard Wagner is also at the centre of several other concert programmes, including at Haus Wahnfried in Bayreuth. In 2024 she had her acclaimed debut at Berlin’s Philharmonie, in Gounod’s Messe solenelle de Sainte Cécile. With her accompanist Helmut Deutsch, she appeared at the Lavaux Classic Festival in Cully and will return to Konzerthaus Blaibach and other European recital venues, with Mahler, Strauss and Wagner.

At Oper Leipzig, where Ms Traubel was a member of the ensemble until 2025, following positions at Zurich Opera and Freiburg Opera, she recently appeared as Freia in Wagner’s Das Rheingold and as Helmwige in Die Walküre. Sarah also sang Agathe in Weber's Der Freischütz and appeared in the title role of Lortzing's Undine. Having appeared as Sophie in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier with the NOSPR Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Foster, alongside Sophie Koch as Octavian, she was invited to return to this work as Marschallin, again conducted by Maestro Foster. At Oper Leipzig, she also returned to her roles of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and Violetta in La Traviata. Her interpretation of the role of Inanna in Jörg Widmann's opera "Babylon" at the State Theatre Wiesbaden earned her rave reviews (“Dominating … stunning”: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; “Amazing … highly convincing presence”: Hessischer Rundfunk).

A passionate actress on the opera stage, Sarah Traubel has collaborated with eminent stage directors including Harry Kupfer, Katharina Thoma, Jan Esslinger, Joan Anton Rechi, Paco Azorín, Nina Russi, and Jens-Daniel Herzog. Her album "De Profundis" featuring arias by Bach and works for soprano by Schönberg and Berg, was released on Aparté in 2023, followed in 2025 by the Symphony No. 14 by Dmitri Shostakovich (also on Aparté). Her 2022 CD "In meinem Lied", together with pianist Helmut Deutsch (on Aparté), featuring songs by Liszt, Mahler, Strauss and Korngold, brought her nominations for the Opus Klassik Award as "Female Singer of the Year". Her SONY Classical debut CD "Arias for Josepha" of Mozart and other virtuoso coloratura arias was released in 2020 and received worldwide critical acclaim, including a four-star review by Gramophone ("A colourful debut ... Sublime.").

Sarah Traubel, grandniece of legendary Metropolitan Opera soprano Helen Traubel and of conductor Günter Wand, began her singing career in her hometown of Mannheim, Germany, at age seventeen. Following her studies at Universität der Künste in Berlin, she graduated from the Salzburg Mozarteum with distinction. Sarah also obtained a master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music in New York.

Season 2025/2026

“Dominating the show with her magnificent top notes was Sarah Traubel”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

"Magnetic stage presence"
Operaworld

“A colourful debut from the German soprano. Sublime!”
BBC Music Magazine

"Sarah Traubel has the vocal equipment to tackle these coloratura showpieces. Her bright, 'pingy' tones and agile technique immediately impress in Haibel's mock-heroic aria. Traubel is never less than accomplished, soaring confidently above the stave, pitch-perfect in the staccato scales and arpeggios in which Josepha specialised."
Gramophone

"Sarah Traubel meets the challenge with dazzling security in her coloratura and yet full-bodied timbre."
Opernwelt

“Her voice was clear as an alpine mountain stream.”
Eastside FM Australia

"Traubel has an attractive and characterful voice, bringing definite personality and colour to the upper register, along with a dextrous facility. Her tone is nicely even all the way up, so she makes all the mad coloratura a delight to listen to. She is attractively creditable in the more traditionally lyric numbers. The result is a fascinating and delightful recital. Traubel jumps into the unfamiliar repertoire with complete aplomb and plenty of bravura."
Planet Hugill

"Traubel's distinctive voice - almost old-fashioned in its freshness and colour - is based on solid technique, and she displays both delicate coloratura and a secure top in this music." Opera