Libby Sokolowski

Soprano
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Biography

Ms. Sokolowski shone in her recent debuts as Lady Macbeth and Tosca at the Theater St. Gallen: critics hailed her performance in Macbeth as the "dramatic and vocal highlight of the evening," "embodying both the character’s 'lust for power' and ghostly forlornness" (OPER! Magazin) and filling the role with a "nuanced, primal force" (Oper Aktuell). Her Tosca was praised as having "everything, acting and voice," "great passion" and "perfect top notes". (Ostschweizer Kultur)

In the upcoming 2025-2026 season, she makes her role and house debut as Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walküre at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, and returns to the St.Galler Festspiele to debut Amneris in Verdi's Aida. Previously a member of the ensemble at the Theater St.Gallen, she has also performed there to great acclaim as Elvira (Verdi: Ernani), Fata Morgana (Prokofiev: Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Sieglinde (Die Walküre, “Der Ring an einem Abend”), and the soprano soloist in a scenic production of Verdi's Messa da Requiem, for which she was praised for her "full, broad, dramatic soprano" (Online Merker).  

In the summer of 2021, Ms. Sokolowski was invited to perform with the Tiroler Festspiele Erl in a Gala concert of opera arias and scenes with the Orchester der Tiroler Festspiele Erl, presenting operatic works by Tchaikovsky and Verdi. The same summer she was a participant of the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie in Germany where she performed scenes from Puccini's La rondine. Later in the 2021-2022 season, Ms. Sokolowski was invited to join the prestigious Académie de la voix at the Fondation des Treilles, exploring scenes from Donizetti's Anna Bolena and Verdi's Il corsaro with soprano atrizia Ciofi. During her studies at The Juilliard School, Ms. Sokolowski performed in Lincoln Center’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater and Alice Tully Hall in leading roles of Handel’s Teseo, Handel's Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno with Juilliard415 led by William Christie, Nicolai's Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, and in concert with the AXIOM ensemble in a performance of Stravinksy's Three Japanese Lyrics.  

She completed her Bachelor studies at The Juilliard School where she was a full scholarship recipient under the generous support of the Kovner Foundation.  

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Repertoire

Composer Work Role
     
BARTOK  Blaubart’s Burg  Judith
BEETHOVEN Fidelio Leonore
BOITO Mefistofele Margherita
CHERUBINI Medée Medée*
CILEA Adriana Lecouvreur Principessa di Bouillon*
DVORAK Rusalka Foreign Princess*
GIORDANO Andrea Chénier Maddalena*
GLUCK Alceste Alceste*
MASCAGNI  Cavalleria Rusticana Santuzza*
MASSENET  Werther Charlotte*
PROKOFIEV Liebe zu den drei Orangen Fata Morgana
PUCCINI  Tosca Tosca
PUCCINI  Manon Lescaut Manon Lescaut*
PUCCINI  Il tabarro Giorgetta*
STRAUSS, J. Die Fledermaus Rosalinde
R.STRAUSS Ariadne auf Naxos  Ariadne
R.STRAUSS Salome Salome*
TCHAIKOVSKY Pique Dame  Lisa*
VERDI Ernani Elvira
VERDI Messa di Requiem Sopran
VERDI Macbeth Lady Macbeth
VERDI Aida Amneris*
VERDI Don Carlo  Eboli*
WAGNER  Die Walküre  Sieglinde
WAGNER  Götterdämmerung  Gutrune*
WAGNER  Lohengrin Ortrud*
WAGNER  Parsifal   Kundry*
     
    *in preparation

 

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