Sara Seglem

Vocal Instructor
B.M., M.M (Oklahoma City University)

302 Amy E. du Pont Music Building
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Ms. Seglem holds Bachelor of Music and Master of Music Degrees from Oklahoma City University. She continued her postgraduate work at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, where she completed a four-year program of intensive operatic and vocal training.

Ms. Seglem has won acclaim on operatic stages and concert platforms across the United States. She made her professional debut as Zerlina opposite Sherrill Milnes as Don Giovanni under the baton of Anton Guadagno with Palm Beach Opera, a company to which she returned as both Pamina and Violetta. She appeared as an apprentice for three summers with the Santa Fe Opera and as an artist at the Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony in Arkansas. She has also performed principal roles with such opera companies as Dallas, Santa Fe, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and Arizona. She has sung leading roles with the Buffalo Opera, the Oklahoma Opera Theater and the Pennsylvania Opera Theater. Most recent seasons include soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9* with the Delaware Symphony, the role of Clorinda in the Opera Company of Philadelphia's production of Rossini's La Cenerentola, Countess Almaviva in Opera Delaware's Le nozze di Figaro and also Elvira in their Don Giovanni, Dalila in Handel's Samson with the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Mozart's Mass in C minor at Carnegie Hall, as well as principal roles in concerts with symphonies in California and Ohio. Honors and awards have been conferred upon her by the Richard Tucker Foundation, the Oratorio Society of New York, the Liederkranz Foundation, the Pavarotti Competition, the Metropolitan Opera National Council and the St. Louis Symphony. She is the featured guest artist on the Turtle Creek Chorale's recording A Roamin' Holiday.

In addition to her adjunct faculty position at U of D, Ms. Seglem also teaches voice at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges in Pennsylvania, and maintains a studio in her home.