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Nadine Sierra
Soprano (lyric coloratura)
Born May 14, 1988 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States (38 years old)
Opera
Nadine Sierra is an American soprano. She is best known for her interpretation of Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, and Lucia in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. Currently performing in leading roles in the top opera houses around the world, she received the 1st Prize and People's Choice Award 2013 at the Neue Stimmen competition, is the 2017 Richard Tucker Music Foundation Award Winner, and was awarded the Beverly Sills Artists Award in 2018. Her debut album on the Universal Music Group label, There's a Place for Us, was released on August 24, 2018, and her second album, Made for Opera, was released March 4, 2022.
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Career Trajectory
Nadine Sierra's precocious talent was nurtured through America's most selective young artist programs, beginning with the Palm Beach Opera at age fourteen and culminating in her appointment as an Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera in 2011. Her professional operatic debut at sixteen as the Sandman in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel preceded a meteoric rise marked by back-to-back victories in the Marilyn Horne Foundation Vocal Competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, establishing her as the lyric coloratura soprano of her generation. Since her Metropolitan Opera debut as Gilda, she has become a fixture at the world's greatest opera houses, commanding the bel canto repertoire with radiant tone, technical brilliance, and interpretive depth.
Career Highlight
Youngest winner of both the Marilyn Horne Foundation Vocal Competition (2007) and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (2009); Richard Tucker Music Foundation Award (2017); Beverly Sills Artists Award from the Metropolitan Opera (2018)
Training & Education
Dreyfoos School of the Arts; Mannes College of Music (Bachelor's degree); Music Academy of the West
Engagements
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Career Arc
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1988Born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
2007Youngest winner of both the Marilyn Horne Foundation Vocal Competition
2009the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
2017; Richard Tucker Music Foundation Award
2018; Beverly Sills Artists Award from the Metropolitan Opera
Available Performances
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