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Background

Sophie is an renowned opera singer originally from Whangarei, New Zealand. She’s humble, but passionate about her music and career as a soprano opera performer. This is her story:

Career and Daily Life

Sophie grew up in New Zealand with lots of family in the area. Her passion for music and opera has led her career path to performances all over the country. Although she was raised in New Zealand, she now lives in Brighton, in the United Kingdom with her boyfriend, George, who is from Cyprus. Both are passionate travelers though and often spend time out of the UK and in Sophie’s native country of New Zealand.

Both are also passionate about music. Sophie has seen a lot of humble success in her career as an opera singer. She doesn’t like to be recognized, but has had high profile performances all over New Zealand. She talks about how opera is “meant to be heard live,” so she doesn’t record her music. Instead she performs in churches and cathedrals with great acoustics to really feel her passion for opera.

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Her Perspective

Yet Sophie has a significant life outside of the world of opera and performance. She, along with her boyfriend George, are strong advocates for immigrants passing through the Mediterranean Sea. George is part of a project documenting these events to really bring awareness to the world of what these immigrants go through and the chances they take in order to make it to a new life. For some people George met it was their “eighth attempt to get to Europe, across the sea. They pay smugglers to help them get in a vessel that is barely seaworthy, and then most still get caught by kidnappers and sent back.”

Although Sophie and George’s experience with seeing the immigration crisis has taken a toll on their outlook on humanity, they remain hopefully optimistic in the power of change. Both through advocacy, documentaries, and even music and performances, Sophie’s passion for life shines through. She strongly holds the belief that whether someone is rich and famous, or destitute and desperate, people are people and deserve to be treated with respect and kindness and just a bit more benefit of the doubt.

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