Sophie Daneman

Internationally acclaimed soprano, stage director and mentor of young and new generation singers.

Sophie has had an international career spanning over 30 years in a wide range of repertoire. Considered one of the leading exponents of her generation in baroque music, her passion and affinity for this music has led to collaborations with many of the leading specialists in the field and in particular with William Christie and les Arts Florissants. She is devoted to Art song and has sung in many of the world’s greatest recital venues including the Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, the Schubertiades at Schwarzenberg and Hohenhems and the Salzburg festival.

On the operatic stage she has sung many leading roles in the works of Handel, Mozart, Debussy, Haydn, Purcell, Monteverdi and Burnstein amongst others. She created the role of Mother in Tod Machover's Skellig.

Highlights from her extensive discography include the title roles in Handel’s Rodelinda (Virgin Classics); Theodora; Acis and Galatea and Rameau’s Les Fetes D’hebe - both gramophone winners (Erato/Warner classics); Das Verwunschene Gluck and The Sounds of Eggenberg (Proud peacock records) the latter winning the 2026 museum award. Her recordings of art song include Schumann lieder with Julius Drake for EMI; 3 volumes of Mendelssohn songs with Eugene Asti (Hyperion); Richard Rodney Bennett songs with Iain Burnside (NML); Wolf songs with Sholto Kynoch (Stone Records); Noel Coward songs with Ian Bostridge and Jeffrey Tate (EMI).

In recent years, alongside her singing work, Sophie has also developed a career as a stage director.

Her production of Rameau, Maitre a Danser originally for the Theatre de Caen has been revived many times including BAM Brooklyn, The Bolshoi Moscow and the Seoul Arts Centre. Other directing credits include Monteverdi's Orfeo for Apollo's fire, Cleveland; Dido and Aeneas for Les Arts Florissants and two co-devised pieces; Chasing Rainbows based on the songs of Julie Andrews with Ensemble Jupiter and Lea Desandre at Rouen Opera, Opera Comique, La Cité Bleue, Geneva, Bozar, Brussels and Our Mother, a reimagining of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with music by Alex Mills with Figure Ensemble at Stone Nest. As associate to Antony Mcdonald she has worked on The Rakes Progress (Grange/Fribourg) and Albert Herring (ENO).

Sophie also specialises in working with young and emerging singers. She has staged six editions of the prestigious French academy Le Jardin des Voix; Acis and Galatea for the Yong Siew Toh conservatoire, Singapore and also for the academy of the Peninsula Summer Music Festival, Melbourne. For RAM she leads the Opera Makers workshops and has staged the last five years' productions all of which have gone on to be a part of the Tete a Tete festival. She is regularly invited to give masterclasses internationally and in the UK.