JANUARY 2026 // WAGNER: DIE WALKÜRE // OPÉRA DE MONTE-CARLO
director: Davide Livermore, conductor: Gianluca Capuano
photos: MARCO BORRELLI
SELECTED PRESS
“[T]he very young Libby Sokolowski creates a monumental Sieglinde. The Sokolowskis are a family touched by the grace of the God of music. In the second and third acts, her voice became pure adrenaline with soaring high notes and a demonstration of power and vocal projection that foreshadows the birth of a great diva.”
—Lohengrin Magazin
“Libby Sokolowski, with her rich, full-bodied timbre, is a vocally very solid and scenically captivating Sieglinde. The soprano displays a broad line that expands with a wealth of harmonics. The artist pays particular attention to phrasing, counterpointed with intensity and effectiveness.”
—OperaLibera
“As the Wälsung twins, 25-year-old American soprano Libby Sokolowski has the presence and vocal volume needed to win over the audience. The rest of the performance offers some beautiful moments and some successful risk-taking, with the soprano treating us to a beautifully crafted theme of redemption through love at the beginning of Act III. Without a doubt, she is a performer to watch.”
—Première Loge
JUNE 2025 // PUCCINI: TOSCA // ST. GALLER FESTSPIELE
director: Marcos Darbyshire, conductor: Giuseppe Mentuccia
photos: XIOMARA BENDER
SELECTED PRESS
"Libby Sokolowski has everything, acting and voice, for the cuddly cat, who also shows her claws when it comes to the love and jealousy skirmish in front of the image of Maddalena in the first act. In the confrontation with Scarpia, she develops the dramatic force and an identification with the character that makes the desperate actions credible, even in their theatrical exaggeration."
—RoccoSound
"Libby Sokolowski is a powerful-voiced Tosca, in the first act still trapped in the corset of her jealousy, then increasingly free as the abysses open up, right up to the lamentation aria 'Vissi d'arte', whose beguiling melismas the whole monastery square succumbs to."
—Saiten Magazin
"Libby Sokolowski shines in her grueling title role with a characteristic vocal volume and vibrato, with which she gives the rival gentlemen a run for their money."
—operundkultur
FEBRUARY 2025 // VERDI: MACBETH // THEATER ST. GALLEN
director: Krystian Lada, conductor: Carlo Goldstein
photos: EDYTA DUFAJ, ADRIAN STAPF
SELECTED PRESS
"Libby Sokolowski is the highlight of this Macbeth, both dramatically and vocally. The breadth of her soprano, with full depth and striking upper range, leaves nothing out that defines this character: from the 'lust of power' to the sovereign dance on the abyss (Brindisi) to the ghostly, night-walking forlornness of her famous last scene. In her silence, even within this monstrous figure, a spark of humanity flickers to life; and when she does not exit with the candle in hand as prescribed but instead dies and remains lying dead on the stage, she creates a profound moment."
—OPER! Magazin
"Libby Sokolowski has the vocal power, brilliance in the top notes, and the acting finesse required for one of the darkest female roles in the Romantic repertoire. Her sleepwalking aria becomes an expressive psychogram of a breakdown – and the portrait of a woman who is both perpetrator and victim of the system."
—Saiten Magazin
"Her husband's equal is Libby Sokolowski as Lady Macbeth, whose dark soprano sounds powerful in the chest register and explodes in the high notes, outshining everything, before making people sit up and take notice with quieter tones in the madness scene."
—Vorarlberg Online
SEPTEMBER 2024 // PROKOFIEV: DIE LIEBE ZU DEN DREI ORANGEN // THEATER ST. GALLEN
director: Anna Bernreiter, conductor: Modestas Pitrenas
"Fata Morgana was perfectly cast with Libby Sokolowski. Her powerful soprano portrayed the sinister character of this witch vividly (with a skillful wink)."
—oper aktuell
photo: EDYTA DUFAJ
JANUARY 2024 // VERDI: ERNANI // THEATER ST. GALLEN
director: Barbora Horáková, conductor: Modestas Pitrenas
photos: EDYTA DUFAJ
"Libby Sokolowski succeeds brilliantly as Elvira. Her round, full soprano is able to develop the necessary fire for the lover and woman desired by three men. Her voice is huge, but without sounding like it directly."
—Online Merker
MAY 2023 // VERDI: MESSA DA REQUIEM // THEATER ST. GALLEN
director: Krystian Lada, conductor: Modestas Pitrenas
"Libby Sokolowski takes the soprano part with a full, broad, dramatic soprano, making the criticism of the Requiem as 'opera in church garb' understandable (which is to be understood positively)."
— Online Merker
"Libby Sokolowski has her big scenes here [in the second part], dramatically shaped and sung with a power that radiates inward."
—Das Ostschweizer Kulturmagazin Saiten
photo: EDYTA DUFAJ
JANUARY 2023 // WAGNER: DER RING AN EINEM ABEND // TONHALLE ST. GALLEN
conductor: Modestas Pitrenas
"One is delighted by the multifaceted sonority and intensity that the St.Gallen Symphony Orchestra is able to unleash, marveling at the dramatic potential of such a young soprano as Libby Sokolowski, who as Sieglinde effortlessly shines over the lushly cast orchestra."
—St.Galler Tagblatt
"The siblings Christopher and Libby Sokolowski thrilled the audience with their performances as Siegmund and Sieglinde and received strong acclaim."
—Online Merker
"With Libby Sokolowski as Sieglinde, the house has secured an enchanting ensemble member who can hold her own effortlessly in both lyrical and dramatic repertoire."
—Oper und Kultur
"Libby Sokolowski and Christopher Sokolowski as Sieglinde and Siegmund, [sang] clearly and powerfully."
—Musik und Mehr