Nina Warren
Nina Warren is an internationally acclaimed artist known for her interpretations of the most demanding dramatic soprano repertoire. Her career highlights include: Brünnhilde Die Walküre with Charles Dutoit at the Teatro Colon, Turandot with Los Angeles Opera, Sinaloa Festival of the Arts Mexico, Teatro Colon and Köln, Minnie La Fanciulla del West, with Los Angeles Opera and Essen Opera, Marie Wozzeck with San Diego Opera, Leonore Fidelio in Essen, Connecticut Grand, Bonn and Nice, Tosca with Teatro Municipal in Santiago and New York City Opera, Emilia Marty The Makropolous Case at the Janáček Festival Brno and Köln, Kostelnička Jenufa in Sao Paolo and Essen, a new production of Jonnie Spielt Auf with Köln Opera, Chrysothemis Elektra with Baltimore Opera, Schoenberg’s Erwartung with Canadian Opera, Marie/Marietta Die Tote Stadt in Köln and Spoleto, Senta Der fliegende Holländer in Frankfurt and Palm Beach, Salome in such theaters as Deutsche Oper Berlin, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Dresden, Ghent, Antwerp, Trieste, Seattle Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Opera Pacific, Baltimore Opera, Utah Opera, Arizona Opera and her debut at the Teatro Petruzzelli as Brünnhilde Götterdämmerung.
In 2022 she debuted the role of Isolde in Tristan und Isolde with Eugene Symphony. She then debuted the roles of Ortrud Lohengrin with UFOMT in July 2023. She returned to the symphony in May 2024 as the soprano soloist for Mahler’s 2nd, and to San Diego Opera for Herodias Salome in March, 2025.
Upcoming plans include Isolde / Tristan und Isolde at Shanghai Opera House ( co-production with Bayreuth Festival ) and Turandot at Los Angeles Walt Disney Hall.
Other career highlights include her Lyric Opera of Chicago debut in Weinberg’s The Passenger. Nina has enjoyed eight seasons with the Metropolitan Opera and five seasons with New York City Opera. She reprised her roles in Tan Dun’s Marco Polo with the Bergen National Opera at International Festival of Norway. Her return to the Teatro Colón in the title role of Turandot in 2019 was highly praised by critics worldwide.
Her world premieres include Tan Dun’s Marco Polo in Munich, Hong Kong and Amsterdam (recorded for Sony Classics), and her debut with Hamburg opera in the world premiere of Zemlinsky’s Konig Kandaules as Nyssia, which was televised on the Arte channel and recorded for the Capriccio label which she later reprised at the Teatro Colon and Köln Opera, and Stephen Albert’s Treestone at Alice Tully Hall.
Mrs. Warren began her career in New York, where she appeared at the Metropolitan Opera as Gerhilde in Die Walküre under the baton of James Levine.
A graduate in dance and theatre arts from Brigham Young University, Nina studied voice at Manhattan School of Music and the Opera Center at the Juilliard School. A native of southern California, she currently maintains residences near San Diego, New York City, and in Germany with her husband and three children.
