Mezzo-soprano Sophie Kidwell is the 2024 winner of the Young Welsh Singer of the Year competition and a prize winner of the 43rd International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition 2025, where she was offered a two-year soloist contract at Stadttheater Bühnen Bern. Praised in the German, Austrian and Swiss press for her “voluminous, velvety smooth and elegant voice”, distinguished by an "impressive usable range" and "sonorous lower register", Sophie has been described as "a name that opera fans should remember".

Sophie has been engaged at Theater Basel for the past two years, where she most recently sang Carmen (Carmen, Bizet) with the Basel Symphony Orchestra. Her further roles at Theater Basel have included Maddalena (Rigoletto, Verdi), Alto Soloist (Requiem, Mozart), Flora (La Traviata, Verdi), Flosshilde (Das Rheingold, Wagner), Grimgerde (Die Walküre, Wagner), Flosshilde (Götterdämmerung, Wagner), Frédéric (Mignon, Thomas), among others.

In the 2025/26 season Sophie will make her Italian debut in Palermo at Teatro Massimo, along with her role debut as Olga (Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky) at Theater Aachen, and Maddalena (Rigoletto, Verdi) at Opéra de Lausanne. On the concert platform she will sing the Mezzo solos in Dvorák’s Stabat Mater with the Bern Symphony Orchestra, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle and Elgar’s Music Makers at the Basel Stadtcasino, among others. In the following 2026/27 season, Sophie looks forward to various important Handel and Mozart role debuts as a soloist in the ensemble at Stadttheater Bühnen Bern.

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