Sophie Pondjiclis studied music at the Paris Conservatorium and at the “Ecole d’Art Lyrique Opera de Paris”.

She won the “Toti dal Monte” International Singing Competition in Italy.

She has more than seventy roles in her repertoire, performed on the biggest international lyrical stages such as La Haine in Gluck’s Armide and Javotte in Manon (Scala in Milan), Le Tricorne, Voix de la mère in Hoffmann’s Tales (Paris Opera), Olga in Eugène Onéguine (Genève), Amadigi by Haendel (San Carlo de Naples), Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien (Hamburg Opera), Noces de Stravinsky (Théâtre du Châtelet, Maggio Musicale de Florence ), all mezzo’s roles in L’enfant et les Sortilèges (Berlin, Cologne, Munich, Stockholm), La forza del destino, Otello (Chorégies d’Orange), Adalgisa in Norma (Beijing), Marcelina in Nozze di Figaro (Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Milan, Palau de Musica de Valencia, London Barbican Center, Lausanne, Champs-Elysées Theater, Marseille), title role of Carmen, (France, Japan, Skopje, Bastia, Biel, Berne, Treviso, etc.)

Her recent and future engagements are Madame de Croissy in Dialogues des carmélites (Bruxelles, Vienna), Princesse de Bouillon in Adrienne Lecouvreur (Saint-Etienne), Amadigi (title role) in Paris, La Reine Gertrude in Hamlet (Hong-Kong), Filipievna in Eugene Oneguine (Toulouse), Ragonde in Comte Ory (Zurich) On Purge Bébé (Bruxelles, Lyon, Châtelet Paris), Anne Boleyne in Henri VIII ( Brussels) Opinion Publique in Orphée aux Enfers (Lausanne)

For the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Ravensbrück’s concentration camp, the Châtelet theater entrusted her with the role of Havas in: “Le Verfügbar aux Enfers” by Germaine Tillon.

Sophie Pondjiclis is Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters