Mezzo-soprano Sofia Vinnik has been a member of the Graz Opera ensemble since the fall of 2024 and thoroughly impressed audiences during the 2025–26 season with her role debuts as Idamante (Idomeneo), Phébé (Castor and Pollux by J.-Ph. Rameau), and Octavian (The Knight of the Rose). Already in her first season in Graz, she enjoyed great success as Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte and as Hermia in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She returned to the Vienna Volksoper as a guest artist in the role of Mercedès in Bizet’s Carmen.
As a member of the Vienna Volksoper from 2022 to 2024, she sang roles such as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Angelina in La Cenerentola, and Prince Orlofsky in The Bat. In 2024, the CD Legends of the Saints was also released on the Aparte label, on which she, together with Thomas Hampson, performs previously unknown works by F. Liszt under the musical direction of Martin Haselböck.
As part of her concert career, Vinnik made her debut in 2023 in the Great Hall of the Vienna Musikverein as a mezzo-soprano in Verdi’s Requiem under the musical direction of Michal Juraszek. Other concerts took her to the Boulez Saal in Berlin, the Haus für Mozart in Salzburg, and the Philharmonie Gasteig in Munich.
In 2022, she was part of the Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival, where she performed the title role in S. J. Hanke’s children’s opera The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs and the role of the Flower Maiden in R. Wagner’s Parsifal with the Vienna Philharmonic under Daniel Barenboim.
From 2020 to 2022, she was a member of the Young Ensemble (JET) at the Theater an der Wien, where she performed, among other roles, Asteria in Bajazet, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Orphée in Orphée et Euridice, and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Kammeroper. At the Theater an der Wien, she appeared as Afra in Catalani’s La Wally and as Albine and Myrtale in Massenet’s Thaïs.
The singer also has a special interest in art song. In 2020, she further developed her skills as a lieder singer with a scholarship from the Lied Academy of the Heidelberger Frühling music festival under the artistic direction of Thomas Hampson. She is a regular guest at the Schumannfest Bonn and performed at the festival as part of a benefit concert for Ukraine.
Sofia Vinnik was a finalist in the 2018 International Cesti Competition for Baroque Opera in Innsbruck and, in the same year, won the LOTTO Foundation’s Junior Promotion Prize at the National Vocal Competition in Berlin.
She completed her vocal studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Christoph Strehl, as well as with KS Edith Lienbacher and Florian Boesch at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She received significant musical guidance from Malcolm Martineau, Lisette Oropesa, and Silvana and Cecilia Bartoli.
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