Nadine Sierra (born May 14, 1988) 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[1] at the Neue Stimmen competition, is the 2017 Richard Tucker Music Foundation Award Winner, and was awarded the Beverly Sills Artists Award in 2018.[2] Her debut album on the Universal Music Group label, There's a Place for Us, was released on August 24, 2018.
She was invited back to From the Top in 2010, a show taped in Burlington, Vermont, with commentary by Marilyn Horne. She appeared at the United States Supreme Court Building in May 2009, where she sang solo and with Thomas Hampson in the Justices' Chambers. In 2009, she competed in Helsinki, Finland, in the Mirjam Helin International Competition, where she was awarded second place. She had her debut concert in Helsinki, Finland in 2009. In October 2009, she performed in the Marilyn Horne Mediterranean Cruise to Italy, Croatia, Turkey, and Greece. In March 2010, she performed at the Musashino Hall, Tokyo, Japan.[citation needed]
In January 2017, she sang in the New Year's Concert at Palermo's Teatro Massimo, followed in March by six performances as Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.[13] In January 2019, she sang in the New Year's Concert at Venice's Teatro La Fenice.[14]
In 2017, she was named Richard Tucker Music Foundation Award Winner, and performed to great critical acclaim at the December 10th Gala. Sierra performed in the Concert de Paris under the Eiffel Tower in July 2017. Her 2017/2018 highlights include Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at The Metropolitan Opera, solo recitals in Dallas and New York City, a tour with Andrea Bocelli, Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff at the Staatsoper Berlin, and Norina in Don Pasquale at the Opéra National de Paris. In 2018, she was named the Beverly Sills Artist Award Winner in a ceremony held at the Metropolitan Opera.[2]
She is a Universal Music Group artist with a solo album, There's a Place for Us, which was released August 24, 2018 on Deutsche Grammophon. In 2022, her Violetta in the Metropolitan Opera production of La Traviata was hailed as showing Sierra's "innate sense of style and line that recalls Italian sopranos of the past, with decadent rubatos that fall on just the right side of indulgence."[15]
^Romeo, Nick (2011). Driven: Six Incredible Musical Journeys, pp. 51–68. From the Top, Inc. ISBN0-615-51140-6. See also Romeo, Nick (December 2009). "A Young Soprano's Journey to Victory at the Met", Classical Singer Magazine.