Highlights of the 2026–27 season include her debut with the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg as the soloist in Alban Berg’s Lulu Suite, her debut with the Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra in a Mozart and Strauss programme, her debut at the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, and Mozart’s Requiem at the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence and at MC2 Grenoble. Recent highlights included concert performances at the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Berlin Philharmonie, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Australian World Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House, a concert at Singapore’s Esplanade honouring the 60th anniversary of Singapore’s independence, and a concert with the George Enescu Philharmonic in Bucharest. 2024 saw her debut at the Mozaic Festival in California with Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder and a tour of Japan with song recitals and concert performances. Further concert highlights include Strauss’s Four Last Songs, European tours with Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 and Rückert-Lieder, and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14. She has repeatedly performed Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder, including with the Prague Symphony Orchestra conducted by Claus Peter Flor and with the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra under Scott Yoo. In 2024 she made her acclaimed debut at Berlin’s Philharmonie in Gounod’s Messe solennelle de Sainte Cécile, and with Helmut Deutsch she appeared at the Lavaux Classic Festival in Cully.

At Oper Leipzig, where she was a member of the ensemble until 2025, following positions at Zurich Opera and Freiburg Opera, Sarah Traubel appeared as Freia in Wagner’s Das Rheingold and as Helmwige in Die Walküre. She also sang Agathe in Weber’s Der Freischütz and the title role of Lortzing’s Undine, as well as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and Violetta in La traviata. Having appeared as Sophie in Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier with the NOSPR Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Foster, alongside Sophie Koch as Octavian, she was invited to return to this work as the Marschallin, again conducted by Maestro Foster. Her interpretation of Inanna in Jörg Widmann’s opera Babylon at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden earned her rave reviews (“Dominating … stunning”: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; “Amazing … highly convincing presence”: Hessischer Rundfunk).

A passionate actress on the opera stage, Sarah Traubel has collaborated with eminent stage directors including Harry Kupfer, Katharina Thoma, Jan Esslinger, Joan Anton Rechi, Paco Azorín, Nina Russi and Jens-Daniel Herzog. Her Sony Classical debut album Arias for Josepha (2020), with Mozart and other virtuoso coloratura arias, was hailed by BBC Music Magazine as “a colourful debut … Sublime”. Her album In meinem Lied with pianist Helmut Deutsch (Aparté, 2022), featuring songs by Liszt, Mahler, Strauss and Korngold, brought her a nomination as Opus Klassik’s “Singer of the Year”. It was followed by De Profundis, with arias by Bach and works by Schoenberg and Berg, recorded with Andreas Scholl (Aparté, 2023), and by Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14 with the Orchestre royal de chambre de Wallonie under Vahan Mardirossian (Aparté, 2025).

The grandniece of the legendary Metropolitan Opera soprano Helen Traubel and of the conductor Günter Wand, Sarah Traubel began her singing career in her hometown of Mannheim at the age of seventeen. Following studies at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, she graduated with distinction from the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where she studied with Barbara Bonney, and obtained a master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music in New York.