Nicole Car Soprano
Season 25/26 Artist

Biography

Australian soprano Nicole Car has performed on major international opera stages, including La Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House in London, the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and the Opéra national de Paris. In 2021, she was named a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Her discography includes two solo albums, The Kiss and Heroines, which were recorded on the ABC Classics label.

She has recently appeared as Mimi in La Bohème in London, New York, Vienna, and Munich; Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte in New York and Vienna; Salomé in Hérodiade at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and in Berlin; Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes in New York and Milan; ; Leonora (Il trovatore) in Montreal; Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) in San Francisco and Dresden; Elisabetta (Don Carlo) in Berlin and Vienna; and Desdemona (Otello) and Blanche de La Force (Dialogues des Carmélites) in Vienna.

For the 2025–2026 season, Car will take on four new roles, including the title role in Rusalka at the Opéra national de Paris, the Vienna State Opera, and Opera Australia. She will also perform as the three main heroines in Il Trittico at the Vienna State Opera. She will continue her interpretations of great Verdian roles as Elisabetta in Don Carlo at the Dallas Opera and as Amelia in Simon Boccanegra at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

She played the role of Mimi at the San Francisco Opera and the Vienna State Opera. She sang the role of Ellen Orford in a concert version at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and was the featured soloist in a gala concert at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie.

At the Opéra national de Paris: Eugene Onegin (Tatiana), 2017; La Bohème (Mimi), 2017; Carmen (Micaëla), 2019 and 2023; Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira), 2019 and 2022; Don Carlo (Elisabeth de Valois), 2019; and Simon Boccanegra (Maria Boccanegra), 2023.

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