Sarah Tyler

SARAH TYLER is a lyric mezzo-soprano with wide experience of opera, operetta, oratorio, musical theatre, and concert works.

She read Theology at King’s College, London, whilst beginning singing training with Peter Harrison and Dorothy Richardson at the GSMD, and has subsequently studied with the late Elizabeth Ritchie and Meribeth Dayme. She now works with David Coussell and sings widely across London and the UK.

In recent seasons Sarah’s roles have included Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Idamantes (Idomeneo), Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice), Dorabella (Cosi Fan Tutte), Nicklaus/The Muse (The Tales of Hoffmann), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Cherubino (The Marriage of Figaro), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), the title roles in Cenerentola and Carmen, Preziosilla (The Force of Destiny), Third Lady (The Magic Flute), Rosina (The Barber of Seville), Giorgetta in Il Tabarro, The Beggar Woman (Sweeney Todd), Nancy (Albert Herring) and the Narrator/Mary in David Hoyland’s The Christmas Story – A Nativity Opera.

Sarah works in special collaboration with composer and condutor David Hoyland, under the banner of Porcupine Productions, for whom she created the role of the Narrator in Hoyland’s The Christmas Story – A Nativity Opera in performance and recording in 2002/03 and premiered Night, a work for voice and clarinet in Southwark Cathedral in 2003.

She made the first public performance of Jonathan Dove's 2004 song cyle All our Future Days, accompanied by John Kersey, and created the title role in Carlyon Viles’ Cinderella – An Original Opera in Feburary 2006. Further plans for 2006 include Pheobe in The Yeoman of the Guard, Dido/2nd Witch in Dido and Aeneas, and the premier of a song cycle, Bathsheba, composed by John Kersey to a series of poems by Kay Plowman.

Sarah is also versatile in light music performance and is able to offer a wide range of programmes suitable for all styles of recitals and functions.