American contralto Sara Couden is a premiere interpreter of opera, oratorio, chamber music, and art song. Praised by Opera News for her “unusually rich and resonant” voice, Sara has thrilled audiences worldwide on stages including the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Charleston Symphony, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and St. Pete Opera. Most recently, Sara performed as Rita in San Francisco Opera’s production of The Handmaid’s Tale by Paul Ruders, and as Baba the Turk in The Rake’s Progress. Sara is a graduate of the Lindemann Young Artist Program at the Metropolitan Opera and earned a master’s degree with Honors in Opera from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She is also an early music enthusiast and holds an A.D. in Early Music, Chamber Music, and Oratorio from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.