American soprano Nicole Chevalier, praised as “extraordinarily powerful — as good an actor as she is a singer” (The Guardian UK), is known for her work in wide-ranging repertoire with directors such as Petter Sellars, Laurent Pelly, Evgeny Titov, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Benedikt von Peter, Christoph Marthaler, Calixto Bieito, Vasily Barkhatov, and Peter Konwitschny.  This season, she debuts her long-awaited Salome at the Komische Oper Berlin, brings her acclaimed Violetta (La Traviata) to Theater Basel, and debuts with the Volksoper Wien and American Symphony Orchestra.

Chevalier’s international breakthrough was as Elettra in Idomeneo at the Salzburg Festival under Teodor Currentzis. Other career highlights include performances at Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Staatsoper Berlin, Theater an der Wien, Staatsoper Hamburg, and Opera Vlaanderen, with recent debuts at Teatro Real Madrid (Eva in Die Meistersinger), Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Rusalka), English National Opera (Violetta), and Oper Leipzig (Mary in Queen of Scots).

Nicole first earned wide attention in the ensemble of the Komische Oper, where she won Germany’s Der Faust Award and Opernwelt’s Singer of the Year. A graduate of Indiana University and the Juilliard School, she makes her professional New York City debut in this appearance with the ASO.

Photo by Maurice Korbel