Nicole Cabell
Soprano
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Nicole Cabell, winner of the 2005 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, is one of the most sought-after lyric sopranos in the world. She recently enjoyed great success with audiences and the press singing the title role in Handel's Alcina, for the first time, at the Grand Théâtre in Geneva, conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón. She sings another new role this season: Flavia, in Cavalli's Eliogabalo, at the Nationale Opera in Amsterdam. Roles central to this Californian soprano's repertoire include Mimì (La Bohème), which she has sung at the Opéra National de Paris, Cincinnati Opera and Minnesota Opera, Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), at San Francisco Opera, and Violetta (La traviata), at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Other recent highlights were Bess (Porgy and Bess) with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Australia, Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) in Cincinnati, Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow) at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Adina (L’elisir d’amore) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and New National Theatre in Tokyo. She has made a name for herself for her portrayal of Mozart and French roles, including Leïla (Les pêcheurs de perles) at Santa Fe Opera and Juliette (Roméo et Juliette) at Atlanta Opera and Palm Beach Opera. Concert work has included Debussy's La damoiselle élue with the London Symphony Orchestra, Poulenc's Gloria with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Charles Dutoit and Poulenc's Stabat Mater with the Orchestre National de France under Jean-Claude Casadesus. Among the recordings in her discography are: Chanson d’Avril (Delos, French songs and melodies), Silver Rain (Blue Griffin Rec, with songs by Ricky Ian Gordon) and Donizetti's Imelda de’ Lambertazzi for Opera Rara. Her debut album, Soprano (Decca), was highly acclaimed in the press and won the Georg Solti Orphée d’Or and an ECHO-Klassik.