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“Fox’s singing is…exquisite.” Gramophone, July 2026

Soprano Sarah Fox is a winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award and the John Christie Award,and an Honorary Fellow of Royal Holloway College, University of London. She has sung major roles at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Salzburg Festival, Gran Teatro del Liceu, Bayerische Staatsoper, Cincinnati Opera, Welsh National Opera and Opera North.

Sarah has appeared in concert with many leading orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Vienna Tonkunstler, Camerata Salzburg, Hong Kong Philharmonic. She has performed many times at the BBC Proms, Edinburgh International Festival, and Three Choirs Festival, and at London’s Wigmore Hall. She has collaborated with conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Lorin Maazel, Vasily Petrenko, Andrew Manze, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Mark Elder, John Wilson, Joana Carneiro, Robert Trevino, Jiri Belohlavek and Richard Hickox. She is a regular guest on “Friday Night Is Music Night” on BBC Radio 2, and was a judge on BBC 2 Television's The Choir.

A substantial discography includes many Gramophone Award nominations and "Editor's Choice" and BBC Music Magazine "Choice" accolades. Recordings include Mozart’s Il Re Pastore (Aminta), two editions of songs by Poulenc, "The Cole Porter Songbook", Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 under Mackerras and Maazel (both with the Philharmonia Orchestra), "That’s Entertainment" with the John Wilson Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem (London Mozart Players), Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic / Andrew Manze), Nimrod Borenstein’s Shakespeare Songs (English Chamber Orchestra), Parry's oratorios Judith (title-role) and Prometheus Unbound with the London Mozart Players and Crouch End Festival Chorus under William Vann, and Mozart Concert Arias with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon under Roberto Fores Veses.

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