Mezzo-soprano Sofia Vinnik has been a member of the Graz Opera ensemble since fall 2024, where she enjoyed great success in her first season as Dorabella in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte and as Hermia in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She returned to the Volksoper as a guest performer in the role of Mercedès in Bizet’s Carmen.
In the current season, she is making her role debuts in Graz as Idamante (Idomeneo), Phébé (Castor et Pollux by J.-Ph. Rameau), and Oktavian (The Knight of the Rose), among others.
As a member of the Vienna Volksoper from 2022-2024, she sang roles such as Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Angelina in La Cenerentola, and Prince Orlofsky in The Bat. In 2024, the CD Legends of the Saints was released on the Aparte label, on which she, together with Thomas Hampson, interprets previously unknown works by F. Liszt under the musical direction of Martin Haselböck.
As part of her concert activities, 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. Further concerts took her to the Boulez Saal Berlin, the Haus für Mozart in Salzburg, and the Philharmonie Gasteig in Munich.
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 “Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren” (The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs) and the Flower Maiden in R. Wagner’s Parsifal with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
From 2020-22, she was a member of the Young Ensemble (JET) at the Theater an der Wien, where she played the roles of 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 lieder singing. In 2020, she deepened her work as a lieder singer with a scholarship from the Lied Academy of the Heidelberg Spring 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 won the LOTTO Foundation’s Junior Promotion Prize at the Federal Singing Competition in Berlin in the same year.
She completed her vocal studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Christoph Strehl and with KS Edith Lienbacher and Florian Boesch at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She received important musical inspiration from Malcolm Martineau, Lisette Oropesa, and Silvana and Cecilia Bartoli.
09/2025
