Nadine Sierra

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. 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.

A native of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, she trained at The Mannes College of Music and with Marilyn Horne at the Music Academy of the West, where she was the youngest person to win the Marilyn Horne Foundation Vocal Competition. She became a Young Artist with the Palm Beach Opera when she was fourteen, and made her operatic debut there two years later as the Sandman in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel.

She appeared on the National Public Radio program From the Top when she was fifteen, performing "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi.

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]}

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 Fellow, 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.

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. In January 2019, she sang in the New Year's Concert at Venice's Teatro La Fenice.