Sadie Cheslak

Sadie Cheslak is a mezzo-soprano originally from Duluth, Minnesota. In March, Sadie won the 2025 Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition, receiving The Birgit Nilsson Award of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Recently, Sadie won first prize at the Vero Beach Opera 2025 Rising Stars Competition, first prize at the Vero Beach Rising Stars Competition, third prize and The Luana DeVol Prize for the Dramatic Voice, at the 2024 SAS Performing Arts Vocal Competition, and fourth overall and the prize for Most Promising Voice of the Competition at the 2024 NATS Artist Awards. In January, Sadie covered the role of Madame de la Haltière in Massenet’s Cendrillon with Cedar Rapids Opera as a Smith Young Artist. This past summer, she sang at Wolf Trap Opera as a Studio Artist, featured in excerpts of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice as Orphée, covered the alto soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and covered Mrs. Pascal in a workshop of The House of Yes by Kamala Sankaram. Excelling in contemporary opera, Sadie has workshopped roles like Lumee in prism by Ellen Reid (2019 Pulitzer Prize winner and Beth Morrison Project), Jane Doe in Black Square by Ilya Demutsky, and performing the title role in The Surrogate by Sky Macklay. This summer, Ms. Cheslak will join the acclaimed Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera as a Young Artist. Sadie earned a BM Voice Performance from Concordia College, her MM Voice Performance and Literature from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, and a Post-master’s Certificate in Voice from DePaul University.

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