Opera diva, soprano Sonora Vaice is one of Latvia's leading soloists, a laureate of several international vocal competitions. She has been awarded the highest music award in Latvia - the Grand Music Award in the category of Best Soloist in the year for three times. She has also been selected as the best soloist of the Latvian National Opera (LNOB) in the evaluation of the LNOB Foundation in 2019. She has received a special award from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia for her roles in C. Gounod in Faust and O. Golijov in Ainadamar. She has won the Aldaris Award as the best vocalist, the Theatre Award 97 as the best singer, the Grand Prix in various international competitions. As a result of a serious selection process, she won the right to work with grand master Graham Vick. The opera diva has received the Order of the Three Stars, which is the highest Latvian state medal awarded for special merits for the Fatherland. Sonora Vaice's duo of multimedia mono operas as director and soloist, Gian Carlo Menotti's The Telephoneand Francis Poulenc's The Human Voice staged at the Latvian Operetta Theatre, has also been awarded the Grand Music Award in the category of Production of the Year 2021.
Besides leading roles in the best productions of the Latvian National Opera, she has been in demand in opera houses around the world, such as Stuttgart State Opera, Dresden Semperoper, Moscow Bolshoi Theatre, Klagenfurt State Opera, Munich Olympic Hall, Estonian National Opera, Chinese opera productions in Beijing, Shanshan, Shenzhen and many others. She is also a regular participant in various international festivals, including the International Opera Festival in Prague. In addition, the company is also regularly performing at the Innsbruck Early Music Festival, Manchester Opera Summer Festival, Sydney Opera Festival in Covent Garden, Schwetzinger Festival in Germany, Sydney Opera Festival, Dalhalla Festival in Sweden, Saaremaa Festival in Estonia, Velletri Summer Festival, Baroque Music Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, Bidgosch Festival in Poland, Bolshoi Festival in Moscow, Santa Croce Festival in Italy and many others, incl. Latvia: Baroque Festival in Rundāle, International Operetta Festival in Ikšķile, Sigulda Opera Music Festival, Cesis Music Festival, etc.
Vaice holds a Master's degree in academic singing (2005) from Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. She has studied with Prof. Kārlis Zariņš and Prof. Ludmila Brauna, as well as with Prof. Axel Everaerts, Prof. Helge Dorsh, Marklund-Peterson, Eitan Pressen, Donald Kaasch, Irena Milkeviciute, Massimiliano Bullo and Maris Skuja. In London she studied with Iris dell'Aqua, Vera Rosza and Gerald Martin Moore, winning a Jenny Hall Scholarship. Later, he continued his vocal studies at the Baari Conservatory in Italy with the distinguished professor Cathia Angeloni, winning a scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Her first degree obtained in conducting at the Jāzeps Mediņš College of Music, and she continued her studies at the Jāzeps Vītols Academy of Music, where she obtained a Master's degree in opera singing.
Sonora's extensive repertoire includes a number of leading roles, such as Violetta (Verdi's La Traviata), Gilda (Verdi's Rigoletto), Lucia (Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor) and Adina (Donizetti's The Love Potion), Margarita (Gounod's Faust), Mimì (G. Puccini's La bohème), Cio-Cio-San (Puccini's Madama Butterfly), Vitellia (W.A.Mozart's The Lamentation of Titus), Donna Anna (W.A.Mozart's Don Giovanni) and Fiordiligi (W.A.Mozart's Thus Do All), Aspazia (W.A.Mozart's Mithridates the Ponta King), Poppa (C.Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppa), Ninetta (G. Rosini's La Gazza Ladra), Tamara (A.Rubinstein's The Demon), Adalgisa (V.Bellini's Norma), Neda (R.Leoncavallo's Pagliacci), Eurydice (C.V. Gluck's Orfeo e Euridice), Manon (G. Puccini's Manon Lescaut), Alcina, Armida (G. F. Handel's Alcina), Lucia (G. C. Menotti's Telephone), F. Pullenck's The Voice of Man, Valentina (A. Maskat's Valentina), Rosalind (J. Strauss's The Bat), Clevie (N. Dostal's Clevie), Hanna Glavari (F. Lehar's The Merry Widow), Angela Didier (F. Lehar's Count Luxemburg),Serena (Gershwin's Porgy and Bess), etc.
She also enjoys singing vocal symphonic works, her repertoire includes, for example, J.S. Bach's Cantata No.51, St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, Christmas Oratorio, V.A. Mozart and G. Fauré Requiems, C. Orff Carmina Burana, G. Mahler Symphonies No.2 and No.4, J. Tavener and Latvian composers' vocal symphonic works and premieres of works.
She has collaborated with great masters - conductors Andris Nelsons, Edwin Scholz, Graham Vick, Philipp Arlo, Jossi Wheeler, Sergio Morabito, Klaus Maria Braundauer, Richard Tonietti, Dietmar Pflegerl, Andres Mustonen, Thomas Hengelbrok, Will Humburg, Yuri Simonov, Eri Klaas, Andris Pogas, Martins Ozolins, Normunds Vaicis etc.
She has recorded two solo albums (CDs) with the Latvian National Opera Orchestra and conductor Normunds Vaicis at the Riga Sound Recording Studio, Romantic Duets - Sonora Vaice/soprano/ & Warren Mock/tenor/ and also Mozart Arie da Concerto - Sonora Vaice/soprano/, as well as participated in various other recordings. Sonora Vaice has played the female leading role in the biographical musical film produced by Latvian Operetta Foundation Three Stars. Zigfids, which received Kilogram of Culture Award in the category Surprise at the 2021 nomination. She regularly participates in the juries of various international and Latvian vocal competitions.
She also acted in Italian director Marco D'Amore's mafia drama L'Immortale, playing Elsa, the wife of a mafia boss.
As a director, Sonora Vaice has directed two operas. For the first, the mono-opera La Voix Humaine.Telephone. She created a multimedia chamber version of Latvian composer Artur Maskat's full-length opera Valentina in 2024, where she was both the title role and the director, with great success, surprising music experts and lovers. She is currently continuing her theatre directing studies at the Latvian Academy of Culture.
Besides leading roles in the best productions of the Latvian National Opera, she has been in demand in opera houses around the world, such as Stuttgart State Opera, Dresden Semperoper, Moscow Bolshoi Theatre, Klagenfurt State Opera, Munich Olympic Hall, Estonian National Opera, Chinese opera productions in Beijing, Shanshan, Shenzhen and many others. She is also a regular participant in various international festivals, including the International Opera Festival in Prague. In addition, the company is also regularly performing at the Innsbruck Early Music Festival, Manchester Opera Summer Festival, Sydney Opera Festival in Covent Garden, Schwetzinger Festival in Germany, Sydney Opera Festival, Dalhalla Festival in Sweden, Saaremaa Festival in Estonia, Velletri Summer Festival, Baroque Music Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, Bidgosch Festival in Poland, Bolshoi Festival in Moscow, Santa Croce Festival in Italy and many others, incl. Latvia: Baroque Festival in Rundāle, International Operetta Festival in Ikšķile, Sigulda Opera Music Festival, Cesis Music Festival, etc.
Vaice holds a Master's degree in academic singing (2005) from Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. She has studied with Prof. Kārlis Zariņš and Prof. Ludmila Brauna, as well as with Prof. Axel Everaerts, Prof. Helge Dorsh, Marklund-Peterson, Eitan Pressen, Donald Kaasch, Irena Milkeviciute, Massimiliano Bullo and Maris Skuja. In London she studied with Iris dell'Aqua, Vera Rosza and Gerald Martin Moore, winning a Jenny Hall Scholarship. Later, he continued his vocal studies at the Baari Conservatory in Italy with the distinguished professor Cathia Angeloni, winning a scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Her first degree obtained in conducting at the Jāzeps Mediņš College of Music, and she continued her studies at the Jāzeps Vītols Academy of Music, where she obtained a Master's degree in opera singing.
Sonora's extensive repertoire includes a number of leading roles, such as Violetta (Verdi's La Traviata), Gilda (Verdi's Rigoletto), Lucia (Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor) and Adina (Donizetti's The Love Potion), Margarita (Gounod's Faust), Mimì (G. Puccini's La bohème), Cio-Cio-San (Puccini's Madama Butterfly), Vitellia (W.A.Mozart's The Lamentation of Titus), Donna Anna (W.A.Mozart's Don Giovanni) and Fiordiligi (W.A.Mozart's Thus Do All), Aspazia (W.A.Mozart's Mithridates the Ponta King), Poppa (C.Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppa), Ninetta (G. Rosini's La Gazza Ladra), Tamara (A.Rubinstein's The Demon), Adalgisa (V.Bellini's Norma), Neda (R.Leoncavallo's Pagliacci), Eurydice (C.V. Gluck's Orfeo e Euridice), Manon (G. Puccini's Manon Lescaut), Alcina, Armida (G. F. Handel's Alcina), Lucia (G. C. Menotti's Telephone), F. Pullenck's The Voice of Man, Valentina (A. Maskat's Valentina), Rosalind (J. Strauss's The Bat), Clevie (N. Dostal's Clevie), Hanna Glavari (F. Lehar's The Merry Widow), Angela Didier (F. Lehar's Count Luxemburg),Serena (Gershwin's Porgy and Bess), etc.
She also enjoys singing vocal symphonic works, her repertoire includes, for example, J.S. Bach's Cantata No.51, St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, Christmas Oratorio, V.A. Mozart and G. Fauré Requiems, C. Orff Carmina Burana, G. Mahler Symphonies No.2 and No.4, J. Tavener and Latvian composers' vocal symphonic works and premieres of works.
She has collaborated with great masters - conductors Andris Nelsons, Edwin Scholz, Graham Vick, Philipp Arlo, Jossi Wheeler, Sergio Morabito, Klaus Maria Braundauer, Richard Tonietti, Dietmar Pflegerl, Andres Mustonen, Thomas Hengelbrok, Will Humburg, Yuri Simonov, Eri Klaas, Andris Pogas, Martins Ozolins, Normunds Vaicis etc.
She has recorded two solo albums (CDs) with the Latvian National Opera Orchestra and conductor Normunds Vaicis at the Riga Sound Recording Studio, Romantic Duets - Sonora Vaice/soprano/ & Warren Mock/tenor/ and also Mozart Arie da Concerto - Sonora Vaice/soprano/, as well as participated in various other recordings. Sonora Vaice has played the female leading role in the biographical musical film produced by Latvian Operetta Foundation Three Stars. Zigfids, which received Kilogram of Culture Award in the category Surprise at the 2021 nomination. She regularly participates in the juries of various international and Latvian vocal competitions.
She also acted in Italian director Marco D'Amore's mafia drama L'Immortale, playing Elsa, the wife of a mafia boss.
As a director, Sonora Vaice has directed two operas. For the first, the mono-opera La Voix Humaine.Telephone. She created a multimedia chamber version of Latvian composer Artur Maskat's full-length opera Valentina in 2024, where she was both the title role and the director, with great success, surprising music experts and lovers. She is currently continuing her theatre directing studies at the Latvian Academy of Culture.
