Maryland native Sofia Selowsky made a noteworthy role debut as Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia for Houston Grand Opera in the 2017-2018 season. Of her performance, Opera News said, “The brightest light of the performance was mezzo-soprano Sofia Selowsky as Rosina, whose singing featured a honey-rich sound with a silvery top end, even projection throughout her range, and amazingly clear passagework.” In the 2019-20 season, Selowsky joins the roster of the Metropolitan Opera for the first time for productions of Manon and Akhnaten, as well as debuts as a soloist with the Milwaukee Symphony and the Atlanta Symphony. In the 2018-19 season, Ms. Selowsky continued to take on leading roles in her repertoire, including the title role in Handel’s Agrippina alongside a cast of rising American stars for Ars Lyrica Houston and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with Jacksonville Symphony. Additional performances in the season included Handel’s Messiah for her debut with Kansas City Symphony and Mozart’s Requiem with Charlotte Symphony. 

Recent performances include a cameo appearance in the ballet Mayerling with Houston Ballet and concert debuts with Lexington Philharmonic in Argento’s Casa Guidi and with North Carolina Symphony in Mozart’s Requiem. She also made debuts with Atlanta Opera as Mercédès in Carmen, with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in a concert of Pergolesi, and in the summer debuted with Des Moines Metro Opera as the Stewardess in Jonathan Dove’s Flight. Further engagements include Handel’s Jephtha with Ars Lyrica Houston, De Falla’s Siete Canciones Populares Espanolas under the auspices of Da Camera of Houston, her debut with The Minnesota Orchestra in Handel’s Messiah, and her debut with Sarasota Orchestra in Mozart’s Requiem. In the spring of 2017, she returned to the Houston Symphony Orchestra for performances of Falla’s Three-Cornered Hat and finished the season with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, where she was heard as Frau Grubach in the American Premiere of Philip Glass’ The Trial, for which she received praise for her “beautifully free, rich-toned mezzo”. 

During her time in the HGO Studio, Ms. Selowsky was heard as The Fox in Rachel Portman’s The Little Prince, the Second Wood Nymph in Rusalka, Nell Gwynn in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd’s new opera, Prince of Players, and Eliza in the premiere of David Hanlon’s After the Storm.  She also covered the roles of Olga in Eugene Onegin and Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro.  In the 2014/15 season, she made her HGO debut as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly opposite Ana Maria Martinez and conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero. Additionally, that season she covered the role of Dorabella in Così fan tutte.  In the fall of 2015, Ms. Selowsky made her debut with the Houston Symphony Orchestra in Schumann’s The Pilgrimage of the Rose under the baton of Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada.