Sarah Joy Kabanuck
| Sarah Joy Kabanuck | |
|---|---|
| Genres | Classical |
| Instruments | Vocals |
Sarah Joy Kabanuck, also known by her married name Sarah Joy Miller, is an American soprano singer.
Career
Kabanuck studied voice with Dr. Deanna Murray[1] at the California State University, Northridge. She was a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and finalist in the Los Angeles auditionsand she obtained prizes from Palm Springs Opera Guild. She was the beneficiary of the Elizabeth Parham vocal scholarship.[2]
She was praised by The New York Times as "vivaz and brave" and is recognised as one of the most thrilling sopranos young in debuting in the last years. In the season 2012/2013 she debuted in the New York City Operas and achieved a with big success singing the main role in Anna Nicole at the Royal Opera House of London. She also performed for Palm Beach Opera such roles as Violetta in La traviata and in her performances in Carmina Burana with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
Appearances stood out of previous seasons include her debut in Michigan Operates Theater in 2011, the interpreting to Gilda in Rigoletto. She interpreted also to Musetta in La bohème in Symphony Space of New York; Micaela in Carmen in the New York Lyric Operates, and Violetta in La traviata with Long Island Opera.
Her professional operatic debut was singing as Mimi in the acclaimed production of Broadway of La bohème of Puccini, of Baz Luhrmann and happened to repeat the paper in the Theatre Ahmanson of Los Angeles. In the Hong Kong Opera sang with the Orchestra Filarmónica of Hong Kong and also has appeared in the places in the United States like Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Marguerite in Faust, and the main paper of Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor.
She acted in concert with Marcello Giordani in the celebration of the recently created Foundation Marcello Giordani and was selected like soloist with the Festival of Music of Saint Bart.[3]
Discography
In 2013 she launched her album debut of arias, titled A Glorious Dream, recorded with the Orchestra Filarmónica Pannon and directed by Steven Mercurio in Pécs, Hungary.[4]
Personal life
Kabanuck married tenor David Miller in 2009. Miller is best known as a member of successful classical crossover group Il Divo. The couple first met in 2003 on the set of a Broadway production of Bohème, with Kabanuck and Miller playing star-crossed lovers Mimì and Rodolfo respectively.[3]