About
"Her voice with its pure, incisive and delicate timbre radiates tenderness in the middle register, while she floats her golden highregister to the limits of audibility ." - Le Monde
Praised for her vocal beauty, seamless technique, and abundant musicality, Nadine Sierra is 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 Hills Artist Award by the Metropolitan Opera. Having made a string of successful debuts at the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Paris Opera, and Staatsoper Berlin, she has become a fixture at many of the top houses around the world. In 2018, Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music labels released her debut album, There’s a Place for Us, followed by a second album, Made For Opera, in 2022.
Nadine's 24/25 season starts with her Wiener Staatsoper debut singing the lead in Romeo et Juliette followed by returning to Metropolitan Opera as Gilda in Rigoletto. She is excited to return to Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona numerous times next seasonas Violetta in La Traviata, Amina in La Sonnambula, and Maria in West Side Story, under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. She will also appear at Madrid's Teatro Real as Violetta, to Paris Opera as Manon, and to Naples Teatro San Carlo as Juliette.
Nadine's previous season highlights included her Royal Opera House debut as Adina in L'Elisir d'amore, and then returning later in the year singing the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, as well as joining the Royal Opera on a tour of Japan singing Gilda in Rigoletto, conducted by Maestro Antonio Pappano. Sierra also starred as Juliette in Roméo et Juliette at the Met, Violetta in La Traviata at Paris Opera and debuted the role of Luisa Miller at Teatro San Carlo.
She appeared in concerts and recitals with Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with Antonio Pappano. She also performed in recital at Palm Beach Opera, Teatro Real, Carnegie Hall, Teatro San Carlo, Festival Dortmund, Grand Théâtre de Genève, and in Kansas City (Harriman-Jewell Series). She has also joined Andrea Bocelli in his 30th anniversary tour across Europe and North America and will be joining him again in Madison Square Garden, New York and at Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida in December 2024.
Other notable engagements from past seasons include the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor at Teatro La Fenice, Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Flavia (Eliogabalo), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), and Norina (Don Pasquale) at Opéra National de Paris, Zerlina and Ilia (Idomeneo) at the Metropolitan Opera, Juliette, Lucia, Musetta, Pamina, and Contessa at San Francisco Opera. In 2016, she and Leo Nucci made headlines after her house debut in Rigoletto at Teatro alla Scala when, on opening night, they were prompted by the audience to encore the duet, breaking a La Scala tradition dating back to Toscanini. Among many of her concert appearances ranging from Carnegie Hall, Arena di Verona, Musikverein in Vienna, Tanglewood, and Ravinia music festivals, Dallas Opera, Park Avenue Armory in NYC, the soprano also had the privilege and honor of performing twice at the U.S. Supreme Court for the Honorable Justices.
Throughout Ms. Sierra’s young career, she has taken home several awards and 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 home first prizes in 2010 at the George London Competition, Gerda Lissner International Competition, and Loren Zachary Competition, and was a recipient of a Richard Tucker Music Foundation Study Grant. In 2013, she placed first at the Neue Stimmen, Caballé, and Veronica Dunne International Singing Competitions, and won a Richard Tucker Music Foundation Career Grant.
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, and received her bachelor’s degree from Mannes College the New School for Music. Following graduation, she went on to participate 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 Appetite, Opera News, on the cover of Classical Singer magazine, and numerous international TV and print media. She maintains an active presence on social media, where she interacts with her followers by answering messages, comments and questions on a daily basis.