Described as having a voice composed of a "warm, rich middle and shining top," with "convincing, sometimes arresting interpretive choices," Zarah Brock, soprano, recently made her debut with the Richmond Ballet and Richmond Symphony as the soprano soloist in Orff's Carmina Burana.

 

Zarah is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland where she was a member of the Maryland Opera Studio, studying under Delores Ziegler. While at UMD, Zarah performed the roles of Annio in La clemenza di Tito and Soeur Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites, covered Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, and created the roles of the Chamberlain in an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Young King and Coretta Wilkins in Towne Hall.

 

Zarah received her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she sang the roles of Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow, Casilda in The Gondoliers and First Spirit in Die Zauberflöte.

 

In the summer of 2019, Zarah was a Young Artist at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario and trained as a Fellow at the CoOPERAtive Program at Westminster Choir College. Zarah also trained at the late Lorin Maazel’s Castleton Festival for three consecutive summers and also had the privilege to travel to Oman with the Castleton Festival to sing in La Bohème at the Royal Opera House in Muscat. In the summer of 2017, Zarah sang Zerlina in Don Giovanni with the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival and returned home to Virginia to sing Belinda in Dido and Aeneas with the Stafford Opera Troupe, where she also served as a faculty member. Other roles include Lucy in The Telephone and Don Ettore in La canterina with Olde Towne Opera. She has also been an emerging artist with Bel Canto in Tuscany as well as the Harrower Summer Opera and Atlantic Music Festival.

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Zarah has competed as a semi finalist in the Lotte Lenya Competition as well as the Annapolis Opera Competition. Zarah has garnered top prizes from the Virginia National Association of Teachers of Singing, is a second place winner of the American Prize in Voice, a recipient of the Richmond Friends of Opera scholarship, as well as the Victor Rice Opera Assistantship.