New Zealand mezzo soprano Sarah Castle made her San Diego Opera debut in 2007 as Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro and returned in 2008 as Lola in Cavalleria rusticana and in 2010 as Stephano in Romeo and Juliet. Recent engagements include the title role in Tan Dun’s Marco Polo for the Netherlands Opera, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro for Seattle Opera, Fox in The Cunning Little Vixen for Israeli Opera, Nicklausse in Les Contes D’Hoffmann for Teatro Real, Hansel in Hänsel und Gretel and Ruggiero in Alcina for Opera Australia and Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus with Opera Company of Philadelphia. She has sung Dryad in Ariadne auf Naxos, Siegrune in Die Walküre and Tisbe in Cinderella for Covent Garden, Oberto in Alcina for San Francisco Opera and Staatsoper Stuttgart, Olga in Eugene Onegin at Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Flosshilde in both Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung and Grimgerde in Die Walküre with Bayreuther Festpiele and Carmen for both Opernhaus Zürich and New Zealand Opera.