Bio
Boston Soprano, Sara DeLong is a classically trained vocalist and actress 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, Reagle Theatre of Greater Boston and New Hampshire’s Rochester Opera House, Sara is equally at home in musical theatre, operetta, and opera.
Past musical theatre credits include Mrs. Lyons (Blood Brothers) with the Green Valley Theatre Company, Marmee u/s (Little Women) with The Concord Players and Mother Abbess (Sound of Music) with The Rochester Opera House. 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 versatile 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, two great pyrenees and their 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.