Noted for her “playful performance” and wit on stage, French American mezzo-soprano Sarah Scofield is a versatile artist dedicated to telling stories to and for anyone who will listen.

Sarah will make her Opera Philadelphia debut this fall as Maddalena in Il viaggio a Reims, opening the company’s 50th Anniversary Season. They made their Carnegie Hall debut earlier this summer, performing Bach's Magnificat and Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore.

In the 2023/24 season, she was named a winner of the Utah District in the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition and made her Utah Symphony debut as the alto soloist in Messiah. As a Resident Artist with Utah Opera that season, they made their professional operatic debut as the Fox in The Little Prince, performed Myrtale in Thaïs, and covered Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro. Additional performances with Utah Opera included Der Sandmännchen and Kate Pinkerton in the 2024/25 season.

Sarah’s past credits include Narciso in Agrippina, Uta Hagen in a workshop of Robeson in Moscow, Messaggiera (L’Orfeo), Die Zweite Dame (Die Zauberflöte), and the Foreign Woman (The Consul), among others. A passionate recitalist, she has performed at SongFest as a Stern Fellow and at Music Academy of the West, premiering works by Anna Weesner and appearing in recitals curated by Graham Johnson and Jake Heggie.

Deeply committed to inclusion in the arts, Sarah has performed with the Utah Symphony’s Access to Music program, and with the Cincinnati Song Initiative in the LYNX Project’s Amplify Series, and in Spectral Sights and Sounds, a collage of theater and song exploring neurodiverse experience.

They were also featured during the Lawrence University Refugee Symposium, singing the U.S. premiere of Beneath the Azure Sky, a chamber work setting poems by Afghani refugee women.

When not singing, Sarah can be found perfecting her bagel-making skills, sharing and communicating her passion for marine life with the public, or listening for orca vocalizations as a participant in the OrcaSound citizen science initiative. They are currently based in Salt Lake City and are an alumna of the University of Cincinnati-CCM. She is deeply grateful to her teachers James Smidt, Nova Thomas, William McGraw, Quinn Patrick Ankrum, and Joanne Bozeman.