Nina Warren
American dramatic soprano Nina Warren has enjoyed an outstanding international career, earning acclaim for her commanding portrayals of the great Wagner, Strauss, Puccini and Janáček heroines. Renowned for the power of her voice and her compelling stage presence, she has appeared at many of the world’s leading opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro Colón, Los Angeles Opera, Oper Köln, Oper Frankfurt, Semperoper Dresden, Stuttgart Opera, Seattle Opera, San Diego Opera, New York City Opera and the Shanghai Opera House.
Recent highlights include Isolde (Tristan und Isolde) at the Shanghai Opera House in the celebrated co-production with the Bayreuth Festival, Turandot at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Ortrud (Lohengrin) with UFOMT, and Herodias (Salome) with San Diego Opera.
Among her signature roles are Turandot, performed with Los Angeles Opera, the Teatro Colón, the Sinaloa Festival and Oper Köln; Brünnhilde (Die Walküre) under Charles Dutoit at the Teatro Colón and in Götterdämmerung in Bari; Minnie (La fanciulla del West) with Los Angeles Opera and Oper Essen; Leonore (Fidelio) in Essen, Bonn, Nice and Connecticut; Tosca in Santiago and New York; Emilia Marty (The Makropulos Case) in Brno and Cologne; Kostelnička (Jenůfa) in São Paulo and Essen; Chrysothemis (Elektra) with Baltimore Opera; Marie (Wozzeck) with San Diego Opera; Marietta (Die tote Stadt) in Cologne and Spoleto; and Senta (Der fliegende Holländer) in Frankfurt and Palm Beach.
A celebrated interpreter of Salome, she has performed Strauss’ heroine in Berlin, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Dresden, Ghent, Antwerp, Trieste, Seattle, Baltimore, Utah, Arizona, Florida Grand Opera and Opera Pacific. Her repertoire also includes Weinberg’s The Passenger in Chicago and Krenek’s Jonny spielt auf in Cologne.
Nina Warren was a member of the Metropolitan Opera for eight seasons and of the New York City Opera for five seasons. She returned to the Teatro Colón in the title role of Turandot, a performance widely praised by the international press.
A committed advocate of contemporary opera, she created leading roles in Tan Dun’s Marco Polo in Munich, Hong Kong and Amsterdam (recorded for Sony Classical), Zemlinsky’s König Kandaules at the Hamburg State Opera (televised by ARTE and released on Capriccio), and Stephen Albert’s Treestone at Alice Tully Hall in New York.
Nina Warren began her international career at the Metropolitan Opera as Gerhilde in Die Walküre under James Levine. A graduate in dance and theatre from Brigham Young University, she continued her vocal studies at the Manhattan School of Music and the Juilliard Opera Center, laying the foundations for a career that has made her one of today’s distinguished dramatic sopranos.
Representation : World
