German soprano Sofia Livotov is an opera and concert singer based in Geneva, Switzerland. Her agile, radiant voice brings stylistic versatility to repertoire ranging from Baroque to contemporary music. Raised in Hanover, she has developed an international career spanning opera, art song and concert repertoire. Sofia Livotov is a bursary recipient of the International Opera Awards Foundation and a prize-winner of the London Classical Music Competition. She has worked with a wide range of opera companies, among them the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opera North, Lucerne Theatre, Leiden Theatre, Theatre Casino Zug and Opera Kensington. Her concert and recital work has taken her to venues and festivals such as the Southbank Centre in London, Tonhalle Zürich and the Oxford Song Festival. Her operatic repertoire includes Frasquita (Carmen), Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica), Musetta (La Bohème), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Snegurochka (The Snow Maiden), Sophie (Werther), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Gilda (Rigoletto) and Adele (Die Fledermaus). Between 2022 and 2026, Sofia was regularly engaged at Opera North in Leeds in solo roles and covers, among them Yvette (La Rondine) and the Owl (The Cunning Little Vixen). She also sang with the Opera North chorus in various opera productions, concerts and recordings.
 

Sofia is increasingly expanding her repertoire in contemporary music and opera. In June 2026, she took part in Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. At the Tête-à-Tête Festival in London, she created the role of Mission Controller in the world premiere of Edward Lambert’s Apollo’s Mission. Further contemporary projects include Henri Pousseur’s Faust-Satelliten at Lucerne Theatre and Alexander Liebermann’s melodrama Das Erwachen, in which she performed the soprano solo with musicians of the Staatskapelle Berlin as part of the Orchester des Wandels’ Climate Concert Series across Germany.

Alongside her operatic work, Sofia has developed a wide-ranging concert profile, collaborating with ensembles such as the English Symphony Orchestra under Kenneth Woods and Lucerne Festival Strings. She has sung the soprano solo part in major works such as Verdi's Requiem, Mendelssohn's Elijah and St Paul, Handel's Messiah, Bach's St Matthew Passion and Mozart's Coronation Mass and Requiem with leading choral societies in the United Kingdom. In Switzerland, she has performed Haydn’s The Creation and The Seasons with Sinfonietta Zürich and Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42 with the Berner Gemischter Chor under João Santos. She has also appeared in recital with organist Darius Battiwala as part of the Leeds International Concert Series, and has sung Ravel’s Shéhérazade under Ed Spanjaard and Goebbels’ A Country of Last Things under Jurjen Hempel at TivoliVredenburg. As an ensemble singer, Sofia has sung at Tonhalle Zürich, the Southbank Centre in London and the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. Highlights include the acclaimed recording of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra with Opera North, the Hallé Orchestra and Opera Rara under Sir Mark Elder, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Zurich Sing-Akademie and Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under David Zinman.
 

Sofia has a particular passion for art song and has, over the years, developed original programmes and concert formats. She performs regularly in Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom and Indonesia with chamber music partners such as tenor Satriya Krisna and pianists Natalia Pegarkova-Barenboim, Prajna Indrawati and Edith Widayani. During her Indonesian concert tours in 2023 and 2025, she presented a varied song repertoire at venues in Jakarta, Bali and Surabaya. Sofia has been invited to perform at Beethoven bei Uns, Musikzimmer Berlin, the Maria-Anna-Mozart Society in Salzburg and the University of Leeds International Concert Series. Together with pianist Frans van Ruth, she presented Schlegel’s song cycle Op. 28 in Leiden and Amsterdam, which was subsequently recorded by Dutch Radio. At Grossmünster Zürich, she appeared in the Swiss premiere of Pozdejev’s cantata Sulamith, and with the Hanseatic Piano Trio she performed Beethoven’s Welsh Songs as part of the Rathauskonzerte Wismar. In 2021, she was selected for the Oxford Song Residential Mastercourse and featured in the festival programme. Her short album Sounds of Indonesia, recorded with tenor Satriya Krisna and pianist Prajna Indrawati to promote Indonesian art song internationally, has been broadcast on SWR2, Radio Klassik Stephansdom and CKIA FM Canada.

Sofia Livotov completed her vocal studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and at Hochschule Luzern – Musik. She also trained as a pianist at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, is an excellent sight-reader, and speaks German, English, Russian and French.