Nicole Car

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Nicole Car (* 1985 ) is an Australian opera singer from Melbourne .

biography

Nicole Car grew up in Essendon , Melbourne. At high school, she took up jazz singing before, initiated by a teacher and attending a performance by the soprano Deborah Riedel in Tosca , she discovered her preference for classical music in the final year of school. She studied classical singing at the Victorian College of the Arts at Melbourne University . In 2007 she won the Herald Sun Aria competition and two years later made her debut at the Melbourne Victorian Opera as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni .

In 2010 the soprano went to Sydney and was accepted into the support program of Opera Australia. The peasant girl Micaëla in Carmen was her first major role in the Sydney Opera House a year later . This performance also brought her international attention and she signed with a New York artist agency. For Opera Australia she has appeared in a variety of roles, including the title roles of La traviata , Thaïs and Luisa Miller (for which she won her first Helpmann Award in Australia); Fiordiligi ( Così fan tutte ), Tatyana ( Eugen Onegin ), Micaëla ( Carmen ), Mimì ( La Bohème ), Marguerite ( Faust ), Pamina ( Die Zauberflöte ), Leila ( Les pêcheurs de perles ), as well as Donna Anna and Donna Elvira ( Don Giovanni ). She could also be heard as Donna Anna at the West Australian Opera and she sang Adalgisa in Norma at the Victorian Opera in Melbourne. In 2019 Car returned to Australia to make her role debut as Ellen Orford in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes in concert performances at the Sydney Opera House , and with her husband, the Canadian baritone Étienne Dupuis [fr], she created a series of recitals.

Her first international success was a first place at the International Singing Competition New Voices in Gütersloh in 2013. Her first engagement outside of Australia was in Dallas in the 2014/15 season as Countess Almaviva in Figaro's wedding . She then played Tatjana in Eugen Onegin at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , where she met her future husband Étienne Dupuis, who sang the title role. In recent years she has also performed at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte , as Marguerite in Faust and in a Verdi concert. In 2019 she was back with Étienne Dupuis for the last performances of Götz Friedrich's production of Eugen Onegin on the stage of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

She had her international breakthrough again in October 2015 in the role of Micaëla in Carmen and later as Tatjana in Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House in London. There she could also be seen as Mimì in a new production of La Bohème in the 2017/18 season .

At the Paris Opera , Nicole Car has so far interpreted Tatjana in Eugene Onegin , Mimì in La Bohème , Micaela in Carmen and Donna Elvira in a new production of Don Giovanni that has been shown in cinemas in many countries. She also made her role debut as Elisabetta di Valois in Don Carlos at the Opéra Bastille in the 2019/2020 season .

Car made her Metropolitan Opera debut in New York City in September 2018 as Mimì ( La Bohème ) and returned there as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte in the 2019/2020 season. For the season 2020/2021 appearances as Micaela in Carmen and Mimì in La Bohème are planned.

In the 2019/2020 season she made her debut in Canada as Tatjana in Eugen Onegin at the Opéra de Montréal , a role that she will also interpret at the Sydney Opera House in July and August 2020 . She also appears as Mimì in La Bohème at the Royal Opera House and in the title role of Thaïs at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

In September 2015 Nicole Car recorded her first CD, The Kiss , with opera recordings accompanied by the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra under Andrea Molino . It was released in early 2016 and was also able to place itself in the Australian charts . Her second album, Heroines , was released in 2018.

Discography

  • The Kiss (2016) with the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra under the direction of Andrea Molino
  • Heroines (2018) with the Australian Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Richard Tognetti
  • A German Requiem with the MSO (ABC Classics)
  • Rule Britannia! For TSO (ABC Classics)
  • Micaëla in Carmen , Handa Opera on Sydney Harbor (CD / DVD - Opera Australia)
  • Mimì in La Bohème (DVD / Blu-Ray - Royal Opera House Covent Garden).

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  1. ↑ Chart sources: Chart discography Australia
  2. ↑ Nicole Car ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Biography, Videos) from New Voices (2013), accessed on March 13, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neue-stimmen.de
  3. ^ Soprano Nicole Car raises her voice for Royal Opera's Eugene Onegin, Matthew Westwood, The Australian , February 15, 2014
  4. ↑ Biography. Retrieved February 28, 2020 (Australian English).
  5. ^ Steve Meacham: From Paris to Peppa Pig: Nicole Car juggles Opera, love and family. In: The Sydney Morning Herald . August 1, 2019, accessed on February 28, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Always Together - A Conversation with Nicole Car & Étienne Dupuis. February 14, 2020, accessed February 28, 2020 (American English).
  7. ↑ Nicole Car: the Australian opera diva you've never heard of but soon will , Louise Schwartzkoff, The Sydney Morning Herald , February 6, 2016
  8. ^ Nicole Car - People - Royal Opera House. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
  9. ^ Nicole Car, soprano. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
  10. ^ Metropolitan Opera Association. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
  11. ↑ New Productions of Aida , Die Zauberflöte , and Don Giovanni and Met Premieres of The Fiery Angel and Dead Man Walking Headline the Metropolitan Opera's 2020–21 Season. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
  12. ↑ CD Preview: The Kiss / Nicole Car / Australian Opera And Ballet Orchestra / Andrea Molino , Sounds Like Sydney, January 22, 2016

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SURNAME Car, Nicole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1985