Sadie Cheslak is a dramatic mezzo soprano with a voice that’s been described as “velvet warmth” and
“rich like chocolate”. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Voice from Concordia College, and a
Master of Music degree in Voice Performance and Literature from the U of Illinois Urbana Champaign.
She is currently pursuing her Post Masters Certificate in Performance in Voice at DePaul University
where she studies with Dr. Linda DiFiore. Sadie will make her debut with DePaul Opera Theater this May
and June as Florence Pike in Albert Herring (Britten). Other roles include Lampito in Lysistrata (Mark
Adamo), Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia (Britten), Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert and
Sullivan), Maddalena in Rigoletto (Verdi), and Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti). Sadie
has performed new work operas as Lumee in prism by Ellen Reid, Jane Doe in Black Square by Ilya
Demutsky, and the Surrogate in The Surrogate by Sky Macklay. Miss Cheslak has been heard as
Bathsheba in Honeggar’s King David, as the alto soloist in Rachmaninoff’s The All-Night Vigil, Bach’s
Jesu, meine Freude, CPE Bach’s Magnificat, Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Weinachts-Oratorium, as Carmen
in a concert of Carmen suites by Bizet, in Beethoven’s Mass in C, and as Maria in Resphigi’s Lauda per la
Nativitá del Signore.
Sadie Cheslak has been teaching voice throughout her singing education and career, and has enjoyed
teaching students from 5 to 81 years old! She enjoys equally teaching opera, choral singing, music theater,
pop, and jazz singing and believes that a solid vocal technique can be applied to all genres of singing.
When not in the practice rooms, she enjoys caring for her 45 houseplants, watching horror movies and
spending time with her friends in Edgewater, Chicago.
