Manchester-born mezzo soprano Sophie Dicks made her debut with Welsh National Opera in 2019 singing Vera Boronel in Menotti's The Consul. Sophie is an alumni of the RWCMD Opera school, the RNCM and the RCM. Her studies were supported by a Leverhulme scholarship, the Shirley Bassey Scholarship, a Sybil Tutton Award from Help Musicians and a private sponsor in Manchester. Sophie studies privately with mezzo soprano, Anne Mason.

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Roles include Varochka / Moscow Cheryomushki - Shostakovich, Orfeo / Orfeo ed Euridice - Gluck (RNCM), Mallika / Lakmé - Delibes, Prince Orlofsky (cover) / Die Fledermaus - Strauss II, Suzy / La Rondine – Puccini, Kate / Pirates of Penzance, Cousin Hebe / H.M.S. Pinafore (Opera Holland Park), Wife #2 / Madame X - Tim Benjamin (Radius

Opera), Dorabella / Cosi fan Tutte - Mozart, Romeo / I Capuleti e I Montecchi - Bellini (Opera Holloway), Angelina / La Cenerentola - Rossini and Third Lady / The Magic Flute - Mozart , Mrs Herring / Albert Herring - Britten (RWCMD), Prometheus / The Fire of Olympus - Tim Benjamin (Radius Opera) and Ninette (cover) / Les Vepres Sicillienes (Welsh National Opera).

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On the concert platform works include, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Dvorak Stabat Mater, Handel’s Messiah, Duruflé Requiem and Rutter’s Feel the Spirit. Awards include the Freckleton and Doherty Cup for Singing, the Annie Ridyard Scholarship and she was a finalist in the 2018 Dunraven Welsh Young Singer of the Year. Sophie was also a recipient of an International Opera Awards Bursary in 2013.

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Sophie is looking forward to working with English Touring Opera for their Spring Season in 2023. She will be singing a role in Zoo! and covering the role of Melibea in Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims and Nireno in Giulio Cesare.