Mezzo-soprano Sophie Kidwell is praised in the German, Austrian and Swiss press for her “voluminous, velvety-smooth and elegant voice” (Opera Gazet), and is hailed as “a name opera fans should remember” (The Prickle). In the 2025-2026 season, Ms. Kidwell will make her debut as Olga in Eugene Onegin with Theater Aachen, as well as her debut as Bertarido in Rodelina with Stadttheater Bühnen Bern. Praised for making an “extremely attractive, erotic” Maddalena (Opera Gazet) in 2023, Ms. Kidwell will reprise the role in Rigoletto with Opéra de Lausanne this season. She will also sing with the Basel University Choir as a guest soloist in Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, as well as Dvorák’s Stabat Mater with the Bern Symphony Orchestra, and later as a soloist in The Music Makers (Elgar) with the Basel Stadtcasino. In the following 2026-2027 season, Ms. Kidwell will join the soloist ensemble at the Stadttheater Bühnen Bern, where she looks forward to various important Handel and Mozart role debuts. Earlier in the season, Ms. Kidwell rejoined Theater Basel in one of her signature roles, as Carmen in Carmen, where she was described as masterfully “rotating between pride, self-confidence and grandiosity like a roulette wheel” (Amtsblatt Ettlingen), as well as debuting Flora in La traviata. An accomplished singer in the concert repertoire, Ms. Kidwell sang as mezzo-soprano soloist in a new semi-staged work commissioned by FIFA, Die Tiefe des Raumes: A Football Oratorio (Moritz Eggert) with the Basel Sinfornietta and Theater Basel Chorus. The piece for orchestra, choir, soloists and spoken narrators tells the life story of a footballer, from the field to the Super League, where Ms. Kidwell sang as Das Laster, or “The Vice”.