About

Praised for her “consummate artistry,” lyric coloratura soprano, Sage DiPalma, maintains a busy schedule performing as a professional musician and solo performer in operas, concerts, sacred services, and as solo and background vocalist for live performances, festivals and studio recordings...

Ms.  DiPalma's operatic performances have included leading and supporting roles in such operas Puccini's La Bohème (Mussetta), Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri (Elvira), Bizet’s Carmen (Frasquita), Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri (Elvira), Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (Cherubino and Barbarina) and Michael Balfe’s Bohemian Girl (Arline).  She has covered the role of Gilda from Verdi's Rigoletto and Gretel from Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. She has sung roles for semi-staged concert productions as Amor in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, Dorothée in Massanet’s Cendrillon and Blonde in Mozart's Die Entfürung aus dem Serail. She has sung with The Opera Project, Center Stage Opera, Main Line Opera and New York Lyric Opera.

Her debut as a soprano soloist occurred in Avery Fischer Hall at Lincoln Center with DCINY. Other experiences as a soloist have included choral works in R. Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music and the standard G.F. Handel's Messiah, among others.

A graduate of Temple University's Boyer College of Music, Ms. DiPalma holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance.

Ms. DiPalma's musical training begins at the age of 5, formally studying classical guitar, piano and violin. She began her classical voice instruction with Austrian Opera Singer and Juilliard Graduate  Pauline Domanski at the age of 8 by beginning her studies with the Italian Anthology and Mozart repertoire including Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte.

She had begun role study with recitative and arias at the age of 14 for the roles of  Susanna from Le Nozze di Figaro and Gretel from Hansel and Gretel. She has trained with American Sopranos Benita Valente, Sheryl Woods and Lori Philips. Coached extensively with Maestro Valery Ryfkin (Opera Santa Barabara) and Elise Auerbach (Curtis Institute).

Sage continued her studies with speaking languages Italian and French to inform and enhance her understanding and singing of operatic repertoire. She conducted choir ensembles as well as participating in string quartets and renaissance ensembles in classical and jazz performances. Upon composing her own music, she learned how to conduct those  instrumental ensembles who would prepare and perform her pieces.

Founder and Artistic Director for PavarOpera Company, composer, instrumentalist, and music educator  Sage DiPalma has been committed to utilizing her passion for music and taking it wherever it will lead her.