Sophie Kidwell

MEZZO SOPRANO

  • ‘Sophie Kidwell shone with her magnificent voice, which made the audience sit up and take notice.’

    Frédéric, Mignon - Theater Basel, Das Opernmagazin, 2024

  • ‘Voluminous, velvety-smooth and elegant voice’

    Maddalena, Rigoletto - Theater Basel, Opera Gazet, 2023

  • ‘Effortless.’ ‘One was amazed at the flexible voice of this young singer.’

    Das Opernmagazin, 2023

  • ‘Fantastic’, ‘Defiant’, ‘Impeccable Voice’.

    Carmen, Carmen, Badische Neueste Nachrichten

  • ‘Opera fans should remember the name.'

    Carmen, Carmen, Badische Neueste Nachrichten

  • ‘Top notch… funny and surprising’

    Mago, Rinaldo. Landestheater Linz, Oberösterreichisches Volksblatt

  • ‘Impressive usable vocal range’

    Carmen, La Tragédie de Carmen, Landestheater Linz, Online Merker

  • ‘Brilliant vocal control’

    Carmen, La Tragédie de Carmen, Landestheater Linz, Kronen Zeitung

  • ‘Technical mastery and excellent honest story telling’

    Cherubino, Le Nozze di Figaro - Berlin Opernfest, Smart Arts Reviews

About

Mezzo-soprano Sophie Kidwell is the 2024 winner of the Young Welsh Singer of the Year competition. She made her critically acclaimed debut in the role of Carmen for the Schlossfestspiele Ettlingen in 2022, followed by her Austrian debut in the title role of La Tragédie de Carmen at Landestheater Linz with the Bruckner Orchestra. Praised in the German and Austrian press for her “impeccable voice”, distinguished by an "impressive usable range" and "sonorous lower register", Sophie has been described as "a name that opera fans should remember".

For the past two years, Sophie has been engaged at Theater Basel where she most recently (in April 2025) jumped in as Carmen (Carmen, Bizet) with the Basler Sinfonieorchester. Her other roles at this theatre 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 January 2025 Sophie made her house debut at Stadttheater Bühnen Bern in a jump-in as Pauline (La Vie Parisienne, Offenbach). She looks forward to singing with the Berner Symphonieorchester again in 2026 as the Mezzo soloist in Dvorák’s Stabat Mater.

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  • ‘Voluminous, velvety-smooth and elegant voice’

    Maddalena, Rigoletto - Theater Basel, Opera Gazet 2023

  • ‘Sophie Kidwell shone with her magnificent voice, which made the audience sit up and take notice.’

    Frédéric, Mignon - Theater Basel, Das Opernmagazin, 2024

  • ‘Effortless.’ ‘One was amazed at the flexible voice of this young singer.’

    Concert at Theater Basel, Das Opernmagazin, 2023

  • ‘Fantastic’, ‘Defiant’, ‘Impeccable Voice’, ‘Opera fans should remember the name.’

    Carmen, Carmen, Badische Neueste Nachrichten

  • ‘Top notch… funny and surprising’

    Mago, Rinaldo. Landestheater Linz, Oberösterreichisches Volksblatt

  • ‘Impressive usable vocal range’

    Carmen, La Tragédie de Carmen, Landestheater Linz, Online Merker

  • ‘Brilliant vocal control’

    Carmen, La Tragédie de Carmen, Landestheater Linz, Kronen Zeitung

  • ‘Technical mastery and excellent honest story telling’

    Cherubino, Le Nozze di Figaro - Berlin Opernfest, Smart Arts Reviews

"A YOUNG ENGLISHWOMAN SINGS THE TITLE ROLE: SOPHIE KIDWELL. AND SHE IS FANTASTIC. THE FREEDOM OF CARMEN, HER DEFIANCE, YOU HEAR IT IN HER IMPECCABLE VOICE, YOU SEE IT IN HER BODY LANGUAGE, YOU RECOGNISE IT IN HER GESTURES. OPERA FANS SHOULD REMEMBER THE NAME."

BADISCHE NEUESTE NACHRICHTEN