NICOLE CAR
Nicole Car is one of Australia’s most outstanding young sopranos.
She completed her Bachelor of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2007. While studying, she was the recipient of many awards including the Alice Amy McDonald Trust, the Sleath Lowrey Rotary Scholarship and the Marion Isobel Thomas Estate Award for the highest practical mark in the college.
Nicole has also participated in many youth operas with Victorian Opera - the title role in The Snow Queen in 2007 and Mrs Noye in their production of Noye’s Fludde in 2006. She also performed with OzOpera in The Beggars Opera in 2005. After completing baroque gesture studies, Nicole played the role of Pallas Athena in Early Music Australia’s The Judgment of Paris.
In 2007, Nicole Car won the Herald Sun Aria; she was also a finalist in the Australia Singing Competition where she was awarded the Symphony Australia Young Vocalist award. She made her major role debut in 2009 performing Donna Anna in Victorian Opera’s Don Giovanni and covered Madama Butterfly for Oz Opera.
In 2010, Nicole was a Developing Artist with Victorian Opera. She also sang the soprano solos in Das Klagende Lied for the Queensland Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Johannes Fritzsch and was the featured artist on ABC Classics’ Last Night of the Proms with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
For Opera Australia in 2011, she sang Donna Anna, Mimi in La bohème, Micaela in Carmen and the Italian Singer in Capriccio; for the QSO, she appeared as soloist in Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem. For her work in Carmen, Nicole was nominated for a Helpmann Award.
Her roles for Opera Australia in 2012 will include Pamina in a new production of The Magic Flute and Valencienne in The Merry Widow. Nicole has also been engaged by the Tasmanian Symphony for their performances of Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem.
Nicole Car is a member of the Moffatt Oxenbould Young Artist Program sponsored by Australia Post
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