Soprano Sarah Moulton Faux is profiled in Chelsea News in a feature exploring her work championing overlooked women composers and the state of gender equity in opera. The interview centers on “Marianna Martines: A Legacy of Her Own” — a theatrical concert Faux helped create that brings to life the story of the eighteenth-century Viennese composer who was producing operatic works as a teenager and was admitted into the elite Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna, yet was largely forgotten by history.
In the piece, Faux discusses what drew her to Martines’s music, the barriers women composers have faced from the eighteenth century to today, and how new works by contemporary composers are attracting fresh audiences to opera. She also reflects on her role on the board of American Opera Projects and her love of New York’s musical landscape, from BAM to Brooklyn’s Regina Opera Company, where she had recently performed Violetta in La Traviata. Read the full article at Chelsea News.