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MARTIN THEATRE
NADINE SIERRA,
soprano
MICHAEL FABIANO,
tenor
†
KEVIN MURPHY,
piano
Bernstein and Friends
’
.
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Ravinia debut
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Featured Sponsor
e Negaunee Foundation
.
NADINE SIERRA,
soprano
A native of Florida, soprano Nadine Sierra made
her professional stage debut at age with Palm
Beach Opera—whose apprentice program she
was admitted to two years earlier—appearing
as the Sandman in Humperdinck’s
Hansel and
Gretel
. She also appeared on NPR’s
From the Top
at age , singing “O mio babbino caro” from
Puccini’s
Gianni Schicchi
. Graduating from the
Mannes College of Music in
, Sierra was
the youngest winner to date of the Marilyn
Horne Foundation Vocal Competition (
)
and the Metropolitan Opera National Council
Auditions (
), also that year earning top
prizes from the Gerda Lissner, George London,
and Loren Zachary Foundation Competitions,
as well as a Richard Tucker Foundation study
grant. In
she received a Leonore Annenberg
Fellowship and entered the Adler Fellowship
program of San Francisco Opera, making her
company debut later that year creating the roles
of Juliet and Maria in Christopher eofanidis’s
Heart of a Soldier
. She has since returned to the
San Francisco stage as Musetta in Puccini’s
La
bohème
and Countess Almaviva and Pamina in
Mozart’s
e Marriage of Figaro
and
e Magic
Flute
, respectively, as well as in the title role of
Donizetti’s
Lucia di Lammermoor
. In
Sierra
made her debuts at the Metropolitan Opera as
Gilda in Verdi’s
Rigoletto
—a role she reprised for
her headline-making La Scala debut, in which
the audience requested an encore of her duet
with Leo Nucci—and Paris National Opera as
Zerlina in Mozart’s
Don Giovanni
. Later that
season, she made her Berlin State Opera debut
as Amor in Gluck’s
Orpheus and Eurydice
. Sierra
returned to the Met earlier this year as Susanna
in
e Marriage of Figaro
and to Paris as Norina
in Donizetti’s
Don Pasquale
. A er receiving the
Richard Tucker Award in
, she was named
this year’s Beverly Sills Artist Award winner
by the Met. Her debut solo recording,
ere’s a
Place for Us
, will be released later this month by
Deutsche Grammophon/Decca Gold. Nadine
Sierra is an alumna of Ravinia’s Steans Music In-
stitute
season and last season made her rst
return to the festival to debut with the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra.
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