Sophie Koch

Sophie Koch is a France soprano who all in the past due 1990s began to establish a profession in leading opera homes like a lyric mezzo-soprano. She actually is particularly suitable for trouser functions. She studied in the Paris Conservatory with the fantastic vocalist Jane Berbié. She graduated with an initial Prize and won the very best reward in the ‘s Hertogenbosch Competition. She started her singing profession in France and in the 1997-1998 time of year debuted as Rosina in The Barber of Seville in the Royal Opera Home, Covent Backyard in London. She adopted that up in the part of Dorabella in Così lover tutte. (Both operas had been carried out by Sir Colin Davis). She’s also sung in the Vienna Festwochen, the Bastille Opera in Paris, Dresden’s Semperoper, the Vienna Condition Opera, La Scala in Milan, and La Monnaie in Brussels. Koch includes a large repertory. It offers not only requirements such as for example Hansel und Gretel, Il Barbieri di Siviglia, Zauberflöte, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Werther, Faust, Verdi’s Falstaff, and Don Carlos, but also early operas such as for example L’Incoronazione de Poppea, La Favola d’Orfeo, Dido and Aeneas, and Ascanio. Her twentieth-century repertory contains Prokofiev’s The Like of Three Oranges and Fiery Angel, Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortileges, and L’Heure Espagnole, and Laurent Petitgirard’s Elephant Guy. She sings concert and oratorio shows of such functions as the Bach’s Magnificat, B small Mass, and St. Matthew Enthusiasm, Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ, Franck’s Les Béatitudes, and Honegger’s Judith. As currently mentioned, she excels in travesti functions, including Prince Orlovsky in Fledermaus, Octavian in Rosenkavalier, The Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos, Mozart’s Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Niklausse in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, as well as others.