This season, French-Japanese-American soprano Sarah Hayashi will make her house and role debut at the Staatstheater Cottbus singing Der Hahn in Attila Kadri Şedil’s children’s opera Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten. She looks forward to singing the soprano solo in Humperdinck’s Dornröschen with Singakademie Dresden at the Lukaskirche in Dresden, Mozart’s Requiem in D minor with Ev.-Luth. Kirche gemeinde Riesa, and Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42 with Studio Chor Berlin at the Kammermusiksaal of the Berlin Philharmonic. She made her German debut in 2021 at Theater Erfurt where she has performed Susanna and Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro, Findus in Ramdohr’s Petersson und Findus, Tante Edla/Jiri in Leipold’s Mio Mein Mio, Adele in Die Rache der Fledermaus, and Aufseherin in Elektra. During the pandemic, she sang Le Feu in the critically -acclaimed, award-winning film of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges produced by Vopera with the London Philharmonic. Other roles include Blonde/ Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Bronx Opera, Zerlina/Don Giovanni for Bare Opera in New York City, Despina/Così fan tutte for Seastar Opera, Olympia/Les contes d'Hoffmann with Arbor Opera Company Michigan, and Euridice/Orphée aux Enfers with Bel Cantanti Opera and Bearwood Opera.