Sarah SCOFIELD

French-American mezzo-soprano Sarah Scofield is noted for her “playful performance” and wit onstage (Front Row Reviewers). Last season, Ms. Scofield completed her residency as an artist with Utah Opera, where she sang Der Sandmännchen and covered the title role in Hänsel und Gretel, and sang Kate Pinkerton in Matthew Ozawa’s critically acclaimed production of Madama Butterfly. During her time as a resident artist with the company, she made her professional operatic debut singing the Fox in a beloved production of Rachel Portman and Nicholas Wright’s The Little Prince. She also covered the role of Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and performed the role of Myrtale in Thaïs. On the concert stage, she made her Carnegie Hall debut as the alto soloist in Bach’s Magnificat and Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore with MidAmerica Productions. In the current season, Ms. Scofield makes her debut with Opera Philadelphia in their 50th anniversary kick-off as Maddalena in Il viaggio a Reims, and sings Nirena and covers Sesto in Giulio Cesare with the St. Petersburg Opera Company. She also sings the role of Mrs. Noye in Britten’s Noye’s Fludde with the Cathedral of the Madeleine. Next season, Ms. Scofield joins the Utah Symphony to sing the second soprano solo in Vivaldi's Gloria.

Ms. Scofield recently performed the role of Uta Hagen in a workshop of Scott Davenport’s opera Robeson in Moscow with Cincinnati Opera Fusion: New Works. While pursuing her Master’s degree at University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, she appeared as Narciso in Handel’s Agrippina, and in an unintentional survey of principal roles without names, Messaggiera (the Messenger) in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Die Zweite Dame (the second lady) in Die Zauberflöte, and The Foreign Woman in the The Consul. She also performed with Round About Opera for Kids, an outreach series through Cincinnati Opera.

On the concert stage, Scofield made her Utah Symphony debut singing as the alto soloist in Handel’s Messiah, and appeared as the alto soloist in Bach’s Cantatas 93 & 131 at the Christ Church Cathedral and in Vivaldi’s Gloria with Mount Saint Mary’s Athenaeum Chorale. As a Stern Fellow with Songfest, Ms. Scofield premiered Anna Weesner’s 3 Simple Songs, appeared alongside Graham Johnson in a recital of Schubert Lieder and John Musto in Paris, Berlin, New York, and performed selections from Jake Heggie’s What I Miss the Most in a concert curated by the composer.

Ms. Scofield regularly appears in performances which center disability, neurodiversity, and activism. This season, she joined the Utah Symphony for Access to Music, a performance of opera scenes which is free and accessible to disabled students in the state of Utah. She sang in Beautiful Small Things with the Cincinnati Song Initiative as part of LYNX Project’s Amplify series, which performs settings of texts by non-speaking autistic youth, and performed Spectral Sights and Sounds with the Epiphany UMC Recital Series, a work detailing the lived experience of autism. Ms. Scofield was also featured during the 2018 Lawrence University Refugee Symposium where she sang the U.S. premiere of Beneath the Azure Sky, a chamber piece that sets poems of Afghani refugee women prevented from learning to read and write.

Ms. Scofield is a Utah District Winner and a recipient of the Rocky Mountain Region Patron Award through the Laffont Competition in 2023. She also won second place in the Albino-Gorno Memorial Scholarship Competition. She has been part of training programs including Utah Opera, Songfest, and Music Academy of the West.

Offstage, Ms. Scofield contributes to conservation and public education at the Center for Whale Research, where she assists in research efforts and helps foster curiosity about the killer whales of the Salish Sea. She holds both a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in Voice from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.