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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 at the Neue Stimmen competition, is the 2017 Richard Tucker Music Foundation Award Winner, and was awarded the Beverly Sills Artists Award in 2018.Mcphee, Ryan. "Nadine Sierra Named Metropolitan Opera's 2018 Beverly Sills Artist Award Winner", Playbill, April 24, 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.Zahr, Oussama. "Nadine Sierra: Made For Opera", The New Yorker, March 25, 2022.
She appeared on the National Public Radio program From the Top when she was fifteen, performing "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi.NPR From the Top, Green Room: Congratulations Met Council Auditions Winner Nadine Sierra
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.
Sierra appeared as the Princess with Gotham Chamber Opera's production of Xavier Montsalvatge's opera El gato con botas at the New Victory Theater. In January 201, she returned to Palm Beach Opera's Orfeo ed Euridice in the title role. In May 2011, she appeared as Tytania in Boston Lyric Opera's A Midsummer Night's Dream. In January 2011, Sierra became a San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship, and the following May appeared in the company's premiere of Christopher Theofanidis' opera Heart of a Soldier, with Thomas Hampson in the lead role. In January 2012, she appeared as Gilda in Florida Grand Opera's Rigoletto, and in 2013 at Teatro San Carlo in Naples, in the same role.
Sierra is featured in the book Driven: Six Incredible Musical Journeys, in which author Nick Romeo devoted one of the chapters ("Journeys") to her.Romeo, Nick (2011). Driven: Six Incredible Musical Journeys, pp. 51–68. From the Top, Inc. . See also Romeo, Nick (December 2009). "A Young Soprano's Journey to Victory at the Met", Classical Singer Magazine.
In January 2016, she performed at Venice New Year's Concert with Stefano Secco, and at Milan's fabled La Scala as Gilda in Rigoletto with Leo Nucci.
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.Tommasini, Anthony "Mozart’s ‘Idomeneo’ Shows the Met Opera at Its Best", The New York Times, March 7, 2017 In January 2019, she sang in the New Year's Concert at Venice's Teatro La Fenice.
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 Paris Opera. In 2018, she was named the Beverly Sills Artist Award Winner in a ceremony held at the Metropolitan Opera.
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."
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