US soprano Nadine Sierra won the Richard Tucker Award in 2017 and was awarded the 2018 Beverly Sills Artist Award by the Metropolitan Opera, New York. She performs at many of the world’s top opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, New York, La Scala, Milan, the Paris Opéra, the Berlin State Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona. She released her debut album, There’s a Place for Us, in 2018 with Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music; her second, Made for Opera, followed in 2022.
Sierra’s 2024/25 season started with her Vienna State Opera debut as Juliette (Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette). Other engagements this season include Gilda (Verdi’s Rigoletto) with the Metropolitan Opera; Violetta Valéry (Verdi’s La traviata) at the Liceu and at the Teatro Real, Madrid; Amina (Bellini’s La sonnambula) and Maria (Bernstein’s West Side Story) at the Liceu; Juliette at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Adina (Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore) at the Vienna State Opera and the title role of Massenet’s Manon with the Paris Opéra.
Highlights in recent seasons have included Adina and the title role of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at the Royal Opera House, Gilda on a Royal Opera House tour to Japan under Sir Antonio Pappano, Juliette and Violetta at the Paris Opéra and the title role of Verdi’s Luisa Miller at the Teatro San Carlo.
She made her debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the 2020/21 season with the concert Del dolor a la esperanza and Lucia di Lammermoor, then she returned with Manon (2022/23).