Sara Hershkowitz

Sara Hershkowitz (born 1980) is an American coloratura soprano, who made an international career based in Germany. She is known for roles in Mozart and Strauss operas, such as Konstanze, the Queen of the Night, Sophie and Zerbinetta, but also for contemporary music such as Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre.

Career Hershkowitz was born in Los Angeles to a family that had lived in Israel before moving to California in the 1960s. Hershkowitz created the role of Claire Clairmont in 's avant-garde, serialist-fusion opera Diodati. Unendlich which premiered in 2019 at Theater Basel in a critically acclaimed production by stage director Lydia Steier in 2019.

In concert, she appeared with the NDR Chor and the NDR Sinfonieorchester, conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock, in a Passion concert which featured Fauré's Requiem, in both Hamburg and Lübeck in 2014.