Nicole
Chevalier Soprano

The US-American Nicole Chevalier made her debut at the Vienna State Opera in January 2024 in Aribert Reimann's title role Medea. In July 2022, she made her debut at the Festival d'Aix as Elettra ('Idomeneo'/Satoshi Miyagi) and appeared there in 2023 as Despina ('Così fan tutte'/Dmitri Tcherniakov). She experienced her international breakthrough in 2019 at the Salzburg Festival as Elettra ('Idomeneo'/Peter Sellars) under Teodor Currentzis - a role she also sang under Thomas Hengelbrock at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. She made her debut at the Royal Opera House London as Vitellia in Mozart's 'La clemenza di Tito' and as Donna Elvira in 'Don Giovanni', in the latter role also at the Staatsoper Berlin. Highlights of the 23/24 season include Medea in Vienna and her house debuts at the Teatro Real Madrid as Eva ('Meistersinger'/Laurent Pelly), as well as at the Leipzig Opera in the title role in Thea Musgrave's 'Mary, Queen of Scots'. She returns to London as Violetta ('La traviata'/Peter Konwitschnys) at the English National Opera. Nicole Chevalier previously sang the role of Violetta at the Bremen Music Festival under Jérémie Rhorer and at Theater Basel in a production by Benedikt von Peter. In the 22/23 season, she also appeared in Basel as Agathe ('Der Freischütz'/Christoph Marthaler). In 2016, Nicole Chevalier was awarded the German theatre prize 'Der Faust' for her interpretation of the four female roles in 'The Tales of Hoffmann'.