Bio
Boston Soprano, Sara DeLong is an actress and classically trained vocalist with a particular penchant for contemporary works and modern interpretations of the classics. With a “clear legato” (Boston Musical Intelligencer) and “booming presence” (The Rochester Voice) Sara DeLong offers audiences “a bearing and a voice that shine” (Davis Enterprise). Seen on stage with companies such as Sacramento Opera, North Shore Music Theatre and New Hampshire’s Rochester Opera House, Sara is equally at home in musical theatre, operetta, and opera.
Past musical theatre credits include Mother Abbess (Sound of Music) with The Rochester Opera House, Charlotte Cardoza (Titanic) with North Shore Music Theatre, and Jack's Mother (Into the Woods) with the Firehouse Center for the Arts. Favorite operetta roles include Mabel (Pirates of Penzance) with The Light Opera Theatre of Sacramento, Phoebe (Yeomen of the Guard) with the Sudbury Savoyards, and Phyllis (Iolanthe) with Arlington Friends of the Drama. Previous opera roles include La Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi) at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, Barcarolle (The Bremen Town Musicians) with Sacramento Opera, and La Suora Infermiera (Suor Angelica) with MassOpera.
With access to a lower vocal range than your typical soprano, and an acting style committed to the truth of each moment on stage, Sara is a protean and “standout” performer. This versatility is seen in her gender swapped renditions of Thomas Jefferson (1776) with MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players, Alexis (The Sorcerer) with The Harvard Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players and “Syliva” (Sylvester: Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters) at Contemporary Theater Company.
Originally from Northern California, Sara now lives in Arlington, Massachusetts with her husband, two step-teens, great pyrenees and his cat. When not on stage, Sara can be found producing, directing, engaging in excessive sass, or else concert managing for the award winning ensemble, Blue Heron.