Nicole Cabell, the 2005 Winner of the BBC Singer of the World
Competition in Cardiff
and Decca recording artist, is fast becoming one of the most sought-after lyric
sopranos of today. Her solo debut album, “Soprano” was named “Editor’s Choice”
by Gramophone and has received an incredible amount of critical acclaim and
several prestigious awards: the 2007 Georg Solti Orphée d’Or from the French
Académie du Disque Lyrique and an Echo Klassik Award in Germany.
Ms. Cabell’s current season showcases her command of Mozart’s
music, as she sings the Countess in Mozart’s Nozze
di Figaro in Montreal,
Pamina inDie Zauberflöte at
the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Donna Elvira in
Don Giovanni in Tokyo. She will also be
heard in some of her favorite roles in the French repertoire: Juliette in Roméo et Juliette with the Palm Beach Opera and Leïla in Les Pêcheurs de Perles at the Santa Fe Opera. In concert, she
will be heard in London, Chicago,
Cincinnati, Toronto,
Atlanta, San Diego
and St Petersburg.
Future engagements include a debut with the San Francisco Opera in a leading
role.
Nicole Cabell returned last season to the Metropolitan Opera and
the Lyric Opera of Chicago for Micaela in Carmen,
to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden for Leila in Les Pêcheurs de Perles, and
made an exciting role debut: Donna Elvira in Don
Giovanni with the Oper Köln
and the Deutsche Oper, Berlin. She also returned to the Cincinnati
Opera as Pamina in Die
Zauberflöte. In concert, she appeared with the Edinburgh Festival as the
Mater Gloriosa in Mahler’s Symphony
No. 8, followed byGala Opening Concerts in Kuala Lumpur with the Malaysian Philharmonic
Orchestra and their music director, Claus Peter Flor. Nicole Cabell sang solo
recitals in Toronto and Louisville, KY.
Other recent engagements include Musetta in La Bohème at the Metropolitan Opera and for Miss
Cabell’s debut at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires as well as
Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore and the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. She
also made debuts with the New Orleans Opera as Juliette in Romeo et Juliette and with the Atlanta Opera as Pamina.
In concert, she debuted with three major orchestras: the New York Philharmonic
in Opera Aria Concerts in New York and in Vail with Bramwell
Tovey, the Boston Symphony in Beethoven’sSymphony No. 9 with Kurt Masur and the Cleveland
Orchestra with its music director, Franz Welser-Möst, in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem. Nicole
Cabell returned to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Markus Stenz, sang Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, first with the
Singapore Symphony and John Nelson, then with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia
and Antonio Pappano in Rome. In recital, she was heard in Urbana,
IL and Savannah,
GA.
Nicole Cabell’s previous season brought her to the Metropolitan
Opera for her house debut in two of her most acclaimed roles: Pamina in The Magic Flute, followed by
Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore.
With her home company, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, she sang Leïla in Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perlesand an Opera Concert at Millenium Park
conducted by the company’s Music Director, Sir Andrew Davis. Other opera
engagements included two role debuts: the Countess in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with the Cincinnati Opera and Micaëla
in Carmen with the Deutsche Oper, Berlin.
In concert, Nicole Cabell was heard in Copenhagen,
Prague, Munich,
Frankfurt, Dortmund, Ottawa,
Indianapolis and Raleigh. Miss Cabell appeared twice in
recital at Carnegie Hall, first for Marilyn Horne’s 75th birthday gala concert,
then as part of Jessye Norman’s Honor
Festival, apart from solo dates in Toronto, Berkeley and Cincinnati.
A more unusual event in the soprano’s season was a series of cabaret concerts
at the Orange County Performing Arts Center.
Miss Cabell’s 2007/2008 season began and ended with performances
of the role of Musetta in La
Bohème with the Lyric Opera
of Chicago, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
and the Washington Opera. Other notable opera appearances included Pamina with
Opera Pacific and a concert of Donizetti’s Don
Pasquale with the Bayerischer
Rundfunk. Nicole Cabell was heard in concert in London,
Munich, Lyon, Oslo
and Pittsburgh
as well as in Christmas concerts with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. She
appeared in recital in Atlanta’s Spivey Hall, Omaha, St Louis
and Tryon.
Other recent engagements included many exciting debuts, most
notably with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Eudoxie in concert
performances of La Juive,
the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall in Poulenc’s Gloria, the Santa Fe Opera as
Musetta in La Bohème, the
Opéra de Montpellier as Adina in L’Elisir
d’Amore, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin as Juliette, Ilia in Idomeneo and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, as well as the
release of her first solo CD for Decca, “Nicole Cabell, Soprano”. Another
important recording project was the title-role of Donizetti’s Imelda de’ Lambertazzi for Opera Rara, which she also
performed in concert in London.
Notable concert appearances included Carmina
Burana and Honey and Rue with the Oslo Philharmonic and Andre
Previn, an all-Bernstein evening at Harvard with Judith Clurman, the Gorecki 3rd Symphony with the Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo
Vänskä and a return to the Indianapolis Symphony for a concert of Opera Arias with Mario Venzago. Miss Cabell also
appeared in recital in London, Tokyo,
Hammond, LA,
and for the opening of the new hall at Mount
Vernon, VA.
Prior to that, Nicole Cabell made a number of debuts, especially
in opera with the Palm Beach and Madison Operas for Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, with Michigan
Opera Theater as Musetta in La
Bohème and, last but not
least, with the Spoleto Festival USA for Juliette in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. She appeared
in recital in New York City as part of Marilyn
Horne’s Birthday Gala at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall as well as in Chicago,
Buffalo and Bradford, PA.
On the concert stage Miss Cabell was heard in Louisville
in both the Poulenc Gloria and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Raymond Leppard in both cases, in
Milwaukee in a program
ofShakespeare-themed pieces with
Nicholas McGegan, in crossover concerts with the Pasadena Pops and in Montreal
Opera’s annual gala. She also sang in a Classical
Christmas program with the
Indianapolis Symphony. Later in the season, Nicole Cabell returned to Rome for concerts of
Britten’s Les Illuminations and Mahler’s 4th Symphony with James Conlon and the Accademia di
Santa Cecilia. In the summer, Miss Cabell made her London concert debut at the
Proms in Britten’s Les
Illuminations with the BBC Symphony
Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis; she returned to the Ravinia Festival for a
crossover concert with James Conlon, to the Bard Music Festival for a recital
of Franz Liszt Lieder and a concert of music by Halévy and to the Pasadena Pops
for evenings of music from around the Mediterranean. She also made her St Louis debut with more
crossover concerts with the Compton Heights Band.
While a member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Lyric Opera
Center for American Artists (now known as Ryan Opera Center), Nicole Cabell had
the opportunity to sing the title-role in Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen in student matinees as well as to
cover the roles of Marzelline in Fidelio and Rita Billingsly in the world
premiere of William Bolcom’s A
Wedding. Miss Cabell made her extremely successful Orchestra Hall debut
with the Chicago Symphony in concerts of Tippett’s A Child of Our Time with Sir Andrew Davis conducting. She
also made her European debut in concerts of Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in
Rome with Antonio Pappano and Thomas Hampson; she appeared with the Florida
Orchestra as the Soprano Soloist in Mahler’s 4th
Symphony with the Florida
Orchestra and Stefan Sanderling and in Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 with the Baltimore Symphony. Nicole
Cabell was heard in recital in Little
Rock, AK.
The preceding year she sang Barbarina and covered Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro and appeared as Isabel in The Pirates of Penzance at the Lyric Opera, having sung with
the same company the role of Crobyle in Thaïs in the fall of 2002. In concert, she
made her debut with the Oregon Symphony as the Soprano Soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Carlos Kalmar and repeated
Barbarina with the Chicago Symphony and Daniel Barenboim at the Ravinia
Festival. In the summer, Miss Cabell was also heard live on A Prairie Home Companion in a celebration of Ravinia’s 50th
season and sang the role of Lauretta in Gianni
Schicchi with the Grant Park
Festival.
In concert, Nicole Cabell was a featured soloist in Ravinia's
All Gershwin Concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the baton of
David Alan Miller, and participated in Ravinia's opening day concert,
accompanied by Welz Kauffman. Miss Cabell has appeared as a soloist in Chicago's Grant Park Festival and Lyric Opera
Center for American
Artists Rising Stars in Concert.
Awards include first place in both the Palm Beach Opera Vocal
Competition and the Women's Board of Chicago Vocal Competition. Nicole Cabell
was a semi-finalist in the 2005 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
and earned first place in the American Opera Society competition in Chicago. She is the 2002
winner of the Union League's Rose M. Grundman Scholarship, and the 2002 Farwell
Award with the Woman's Board of Chicago. Nicole Cabell holds a Bachelor’s
Degree in Vocal Performance from the Eastman School of Music.
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