Sofia Troncoso
soprano
American soprano Sofia Troncoso made her mainstage Australian debut with Opera Queensland in 2021, singing Susanna in a new production of Le nozze di Figaro. A sought-after recitalist, Sofia has appeared in the Brisbane Music Festival, the Mackay Chamber Music Festival in Queensland, the Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival and the Coriole Music Festival, as well as in concert with Opera Queensland and Pinchgut Opera.
She performed Britten’s Les Illuminations with Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra after previously collaborating with Camerata and Musica Viva on Queen of the Nile, a programme of baroque arias. Sofia has sung Silandra in Cesti’s Orontea with Pinchgut Opera, Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Scalia/Ginsberg with Orchestra Victoria and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.
Sofia holds a Master of Music degree from the Royal Academy of Music in London and is an alum of the National Opera Studio. Her UK credits include the Vixen in The Cunning Little Vixen with Grimeborn Festival, Nanetta in Falstaff with Les Azuriales Opera, Adele in Die Fledermaus with Diva Opera, Poppea in L’incoronazione di Poppea with Longborough Festival Opera, Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Papagena and Pamina in The Magic Flute with Scottish Opera, Despina in Così fan tutte with Devon Opera, Giannetta in The Elixir of Love with the Norfolk Into Opera Festival and Zerlina in Don Giovanni with the Neville Holt Festival.
Sofia has recently made several appearances in Hawaii, singing Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 and Zerlina with the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra and Nedda in Pagliacci with Hawaii Opera Theatre. She debuted in China in 2018 in a concert of arias with the Xi’an Symphony Orchestra and returned later that year to sing the soprano solo in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. In her native America, she has sung Virtù, Damigella and Pallade in L’incoronazione di Poppea with Chicago’s Haymarket Opera.
Representation: Australasia
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