Biography

Nicole Chevalier studied music and voice, theater, and literature at Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.). In 1998, she received her Master’s Degree in Music and a Performance Diploma before continuing her singing studies at the Juilliard School in New York, simultaneously having guest roles at the New York City Opera. She completed her studies through participation in master classes and a stay in Italy (2000/2001) with performances at the Piccola Scala Festival in Milan and the International Opera Festival in Rome. Her first steady engagement was at Theater Freiburg, Germany (2003-07), where she was repeatedly nominated “Best Singer” by the international opera magazine “Opernwelt” for her interpretation of Lucia di Lammermoor. She also won first prize as “Best Classical Singer” at the international Zeltmusikfestival. In Freiburg, Nicole Chevalier for the first time got involved with modern music, which led to collaborations with André Richard (SWR/Experimentalstudio) and Jean-Baptiste Barrière (IRCAM/Paris) as well as Kaija Saariaho in her opera L'amour de loin.

Furthermore, she frequently performed as a concert singer, e.g. at the Bregenz Festival under Kirill Petrenko with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Britten’s Spring Symphony, with the Freiburg Orchestra under Gabriel Feltz in Szymanowski’s Songs of the Fairy Tale Princess, and with the Staatsorchester Kassel under Patrik Ringborg in Debussy’s La Damoiselle Élue as well as in Arthur Honegger’s Le Roi David. She sang Verdi’s Requiem with the Munich Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Roberto Abaddo as well as in a CD-production with the Freiburg Bach Choir and Orchestra under Michael Beuerle. With the Konzerthausorchester in Berlin’s Konzerthaus, she could be heard in Britten’s War Requiem.

Before changing to Staatsoper Hannover in 2009, Chevalier was a member of the ensemble at Staatstheater Kassel, where she stays a most welcome guest; recently for instance as Margarethe in Gounod’s Faust and in the current season in the title role of Verdi’s Luisa Miller.

Until 2012, Nicole Chevalier was a member of the ensemble at Staatsoper Hannover achieving huge success in roles such as Micaëla/Carmen, Contessa di Folleville/Il Viaggio a Reims, Gilda/Rigoletto, Konstanze/Entführung a. d. Serail, Marie/La fille du régiment, Marguérite/Faust, and in particular for her performance as Traviata in the much celebrated production by Benedikt von Peter.

By the end of 2010, she celebrated her debut at Volksoper Vienna as Konstanze. In 2012, she debuted with standing ovations at Staatsoper Hamburg in the role of Lucia di Lammermoor, and in 2013 at Staatsoper Stuttgart as Traviata (stage director: Ruth Berghaus). In 2015, she performed for the first time at the Vlaamse Opera Antwerp in the role of Eudoxie in Halevy’s La Juive in the production by Peter Konwitschny, and in 2016 as Elettra in Mozart’s Idomeneo, stage directed by David Bösch.

From the season 2012/13 on, Nicole Chevalier has been a member of the ensemble at Komische Oper Berlin, where she rapidly established herself as the audience’s darling in roles such as Offenbach’s Belle Hélène, Télaïre in Rameau‘s Castor et Pollux, Gilda/Rigoletto, Pamina/Zauberflöte (all directed by Barrie Kosky), Donna Elvira/Don Giovanni (Stage Director: Herbert Fritsch), and Fiordiligi/Così fan tutte (Stage Director: Alvis Hermanis), and to much acclaim the role of Rosina in Kirill Serebrennikov’s production of Il barbiere di Siviglia and most recently the title role in Reimann’s Medea.

Already in 2012, Chevalier was nominated “Best Singer of the Year” by “Opernwelt” for her Traviata at Staatsoper Hannover as well as for the German theater prize “Der Faust”, which she went on to win in 2016; this time for her outstanding interpretation of all the female roles in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann.

In the season 2017/18 Nicole Chevalier will again be on stage in numerous productions at Komische Oper Berlin. She takes on the title roles in Barrie Kosky’s staging of Belle Hélène, Händel’s Semele under the baton of Konrad Junghänel as well as the role of Konstanze/Die Entführung aus dem Serail in the production by Calixto Bieito. At Staatsoper Hannover she will be performing as Contessa di Folleville/Viaggio a Reims and La Traviata. The latter role Chevalier will also be performing as a guest in Lucerne along with the title role in the new production of Massenet’s Manon.

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