Sheila Nadler Mezzo-soprano

Sheila Nadler impresses audiences with her powerful stage presence and a contralto voice of uncommon richness. An artist of eclectic achievements, her repertory ranges from the Baroque, such as Handel’s Giulio Cesare (La Monnaie) to premieres of contemporary works, such as Bernstein’s A Quiet Place (La Scala), Adam’s The Death of Klinghoffer (La Monnaie), Lang’s Modern Painters (Santa Fe and San Francisco) and Gohr’s Arianna (Covent Garden),as well as Klytemnestra in Elektra in Paris, Toulouse, Santiago and Seattle.

During the 2009-10 season, Ms. Nadler returns to the San Francisco Opera as the Duchess in La Fille de Regiment. Come spring, she will perform Grandmother Buryja in Janacek’s Jenufa with the Bordeaux Opera -- having performed the same work last spring in Marseilles. Last season she also appeared with the Austin Lyric Opera as the Old Prioress in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites, a role she has sung previously in Santa Fe and the Metropolitan Opera.

In addition to the Metropolitan Opera, Ms. Nadler has appeared with the San Francisco Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, the Seattle Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, the Canadian Opera, Montreal Opera as well as at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Abroad, she has performed at La Scala Milan, La Monnaie Brussels, Opéra Bastille Paris, Opéra de Lyon, Opéra du Rhin, Théâtre du Capitole, Opéra de Montepellier, De Nederlandse Opera, De Vlaamse Opera, Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile, the New Isareli Opera as well as at the Vienna Festival, Ireland’s Wexford Festival and the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan with Maestro Seiji Ozawa.

Ms. Nadler was a member of the famed Maria Callas Master Classes at Juilliard. A native New Yorker, Ms. Nadler makes her home in Manhattan.

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