Nicole Car

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Nicole Car (born 1985) is an Australian operatic soprano. She has performed leading roles at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Paris Opera, Dallas Opera (USA) and Opera Australia.

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Early life and education

Car attended Strathmore Secondary School, where she performed in school musicals. In Year 12 she sang at the Victorian Schools' Spectacular, singing jazz songs from the 1930s and 40s.

Car, at age 17, saw her first opera, Tosca in her final year of high school in Melbourne. She then completed a Bachelor of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts, rather than the legal degree her parents had hoped for.

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Career

Car's debut in a major role was singing Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Victorian Opera in 2009. Her American debut was singing the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro at Dallas Opera in 2014, a role she had previously performed for Opera Australia.

She made her Covent Garden debut in 2015, singing Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen, followed by Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. Car had previously performed the role of Micaëla for Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour in 2013.

In a review of her first recording, The Kiss, Car's voice is described as possessing "a lovely lyric soprano".

The Operative Word with Nicole Car | Opera Australia

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Opera roles

O|A INSIGHTS: Eugene Onegin - an interview with Nicole Car - YouTube

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Recognition and awards

At 21, while in her final year at the Victorian College of the Arts, Car won the 2007 Herald Sun Aria, performing arias by Verdi and Puccini. In making the announcement, chief adjudicator Anson Austin said she has "a wonderful talent and a most beautiful voice".
In 2013 Car won joint first prize in the Neue Stimmen vocal competition held in Germany.
Car won a Helpmann Award in 2016 for Best Female Performer in an Opera, for her role in Luisa Miller for Opera Australia.
Car was to have been pictured on the March issue of Limelight magazine. The issue was cancelled when liquidators were called in by the publisher, Andrew Batt-Rawden.