Highlights of her 2024/25 season include Sarah’s concert debut at the Mozaic Festival in California with Richard Wagner’s Wesendonck Songs, and her tour of Japan with a series of song recitals and concert performances. At Oper Leipzig, she will sing Freia in Wagner’s Das Rheingold, following her acclaimed debut as Helmwige in Die Walküre. Concert appearances will also see her with Strauss’ Four Last Songs, for her return to the Polish National Radio Symphony, as well as at Auditorio Nacional de Madrid. Richard Wagner will also be at the centre of several other concert programmes, including at Haus Wahnfried in Bayreuth. 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.

Sarah Traubel’s recent concert highlights include Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs, Mahler's Symphony No. 4 and Rückert Lieder, and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14. 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. In 2024 she had her acclaimed debut at Berlin’s Philharmonie, in Gounod’s Messe solenelle de Sainte Cécile. With the Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Guanajuato, she sang the Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss. In 2021, Sarah had her début at the Cervantino Festival with the Symphony No. 14 by Dmitri Shostakovich, a work that she also performed and recorded with the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie in 2023. Ms Traubel also appeared in Mozart and Haydn concert arias together with The English Concert.

In her 2024/25 operatic season, Sarah Traubel will once be heard as Agathe in Weber's Der Freischütz and in the title role of Lortzing's Undine. At Oper Leipzig, she will also return to her roles of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and Violetta in La Traviata. Having appeared as Sophie in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier with the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra NOSPR conducted by Lawrence Foster, alongside Sophie Koch as Octavian, she will return to this work as Marschallin, again conducted by Maestro Foster. Her interpretation of the role of Inanna in Jörg Widmann's

opera BABYLON at the State Theatre Wiesbaden in 2022 earned her rave reviews (“Dominating ... stunning”: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; “Amazing ... highly convincing presence”: Hessischer Rundfunk). She portrayed Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni in León. At the Festival International de Beaune 2022, she sang the role of Amenaide in Rossini's Tancredi under the baton of Jérémie Rhorer.

A former member of the Young Singers Programme at Zurich Opera, Sarah Traubel appeared in Zurich among other roles as Queen of the Night (The Magic Flute/Mozart), Titania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream/Britten), and Engel (Palestrina/ Pfitzner). In 2020 she was invited to sing her farewell from her long-time role as Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte/Mozart) at the Festival de Beaune, in Jerusalem and at Musikfest Bremen, among others. In Darmstadt she sang Ilia (Idomeneo/Mozart). Critically acclaimed role débuts of 2020 also included the role of Contessa in a new production of Le Nozze di Figaro.

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 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."). Her 2022 CD release "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" and "Solo Vocal Recording of the Year". Her latest album, featuring arias by Bach and works for soprano by Schönberg and Berg, was released in March 2023 ("De Profundis," on Aparté).

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. In addition to her formation by Barbara Bonney in Salzburg, her studies with Francisco Araiza, Julie Kaufmann, and Angelika Kirchschlager were of particular importance for her further development.