Sophie Koch Mezzo-soprano
Season 24/25 Artist

Biography

A unanimous first prize winner at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, Sophie Koch has appeared on the world's major opera stages. She has appeared in Brussels, Barcelona, Zurich, London, Dresden, Vienna and New York's Metropolitan Opera, as well as at the Salzburg, Aix-en-Provence and Edinburgh Festivals. In recent seasons she has sung Fricka (L'Or du Rhin), the Composer (Ariane à Naxos) and Charlotte (Werther) at the Vienna State Opera, the Muse / Nicklausse (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Kundry (Parsifal), Marie (Wozzeck), Sieglinde (La Walkyrie) and Isolde (Tristan et Isolde) at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, the Composer at La Scala and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Milan, Octavian (Le Chevalier à la rose) at the Semperoper in Dresden, Gertrude (Brett Dean's Hamlet), Lisa (La Passagère) and Geneviève (Pelléas et Mélisande) at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.

An extensive discography testifies to her artistic work, for which she was awarded the Christel Goltz Prize by the Dresden Semperoper in 2001 and the title of Austrian Kammersängerin by the Vienna State Opera in 2016. In the 2024-2025 season, her roles include Hérodias (Salomé) at the Stuttgart Staatsoper, Madame de Croissy (Dialogues des carmélites) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Théâtre de Compiègne, and Mère (Louise) at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Opéra national de Paris : Carmen (Mercédès), 1999 ; Don Giovanni (Zerlina), 2000 ; Le Barbier de Séville (Rosina), 2002 ; Ariane à Naxos (le Compositeur), 2003, 2010, 2015 ; L'Heure espagnole (Concepcion), 2004 ; L'Or du Rhin (Fricka), 2010, 2013 ; Werther (Charlotte), 2010 ; Tannhäuser (Venus), 2011. Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Giulietta), 2012 ; Le Crépuscule des dieux (Waltraute), 2013 ; Le Crépuscule des dieux (Deuxième Norn), 2013 ; La Walkyrie (Fricka), 2013 ; Alceste (le rôle-titre), 2013 ; Le Roi Arthus (Genièvre), 2015 ; La Damnation de Faust (Marguerite), 2015 ; Les Noces de Figaro (Marcellina), 2022.