About

Praised for her vocal beauty, seamless technique, and abundant musicality, Nadine Sierra is being hailed as one of the most promising young talents in opera today. She was named the Richard Tucker Award Winner in 2017 and was awarded the 2018 Beverly Sills Artist Award by the Metropolitan Opera. Having made a string of successful debuts at the Met, Teatro alla Scala, Opéra national de Paris, and Staatsoper Berlin, she has become a fixture at many of the top houses around the world. On August 24th, 2018, her debut album, There's a Place for Us, was released under the Deutsche Grammophon / Universal Music label.

In the 2018–19 season, Sierra reprises the role of Nannetta in Falstaff at the Staatsoper Berlin, Gilda in Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera, makes her highly anticipated house and role debut as Manon at the Opéra national de Bordeaux, and performs Gilda in Staatsoper Berlin's new production of Rigoletto, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim. Her season also includes Marta in a concert-version of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story with Antonio Pappano at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Teatro La Fenice's televised Capodanno celebration, the Richard Tucker Gala at Carnegie Hall, and concert debuts in Prague, Bordeaux, and Baden-Baden. She joins Andrea Bocelli at Madison Square Garden in NYC, TD Garden in Boston, and PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, and returns to Paris, Dallas, and Mexico City for solo concerts.

Ms. Sierra's 2017–18 season included her role debut as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro at the Metropolitan Opera, the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor at Teatro La Fenice, her role debut as Nannetta in Falstaff at the Staatsoper Berlin, Norina in Don Pasquale at the Paris Opera, and appearances at both the Tanglewood and Ravinia music festivals.

Other notable engagements include Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Flavia in Eliogabalo, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, and Gilda in Rigoletto at the Opéra national de Paris; Gilda and Ilia in Idomeneo at the Metropolitan Opera; and a new production of Die Zauberflöte at the Dallas Opera. At the Semperoper Dresden and at Teatro alla Scala — where on opening night the audience prompted an encore of the Act I duet in Rigoletto, breaking a La Scala tradition dating back to Toscanini — she has left audiences in raptures. Her concert appearances range from Carnegie Hall, the Arena di Verona, and the Musikverein in Vienna, where she was handpicked by Anne-Sophie Mutter to perform at her 2017 gala for the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation.

Throughout her career, Ms. Sierra is the youngest winner to date for both the Marilyn Horne Foundation Vocal Competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, as recounted by Nick Romeo in his book Driven: Six Incredible Musical Journeys (2011), a chapter of which is devoted to Sierra's Grand Finals triumph. She also took first prizes in 2010 at the George London Competition, Gerda Lissner International Competition, and the Loren L. Zachary Society Competition. In 2013, she placed first at the Neue Stimmen, Caballé, and Veronica Dunne International Singing Competitions.

Ms. Sierra fell in love with opera at a young age, after watching a VHS of La bohème, and began voice lessons at the age of six in her home state of Florida. Although she made her professional debut as a teenager with the Palm Beach Opera, she decided to continue studying, graduating with highest honors from Mannes College the New School for Music. Following graduation, she participated in the Adler Fellowship Program at the San Francisco Opera, forming a lasting relationship with the company.

She has been featured in Vogue, Nylon, Bon Appétit, Opera News, on the cover of Classical Singer magazine, and in numerous international TV and print media. She maintains an active presence on social media, launching two successful series — Mornings with Nadine and Notes from Nadine — giving followers an exclusive look at the life of a modern-day opera singer. Ask her your questions on Instagram @nadine_sierra.

"Her voice with its pure, incisive and delicate timbre radiates tenderness in the middle register, while she floats her golden high register to the limits of audibility."