Nicole Car

Nicole Car (born 1985) is an Australian operatic soprano. She has performed leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera New York, Royal Opera House London, Bavarian State Opera Munich, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Paris Opera, Dallas Opera, and Opera Australia.
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.
At age 17, Car 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.
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. Other roles for Opera Australia include the title parts of "La traviata", "Thaïs" and "Luisa Miller" (winning her first Helpmann Award for the latter); Fiordiligi ("Così fan tutte"), Tatyana ("Eugene Onegin"), Micaëla ("Carmen"), Mimi ("La bohème"), Marguerite ("Faust"), Pamina ("Die Zauberflöte"), Leila ("The Pearl Fishers"), and both Donna Anna and Donna Elvira ("Don Giovanni"). She has also performed Donna Anna for West Australian Opera and Adalgisa in "Norma" for Victorian Opera Melbourne. In 2019 Car visited Australia to sing the role of Ellen in a recital version of the Benjamin Britten opera "Peter Grimes" with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. While there, she and her husband also performed a series of concerts together. In the 2019/2020 season, she will be back performing at the Sydney Opera House singing Tatyana to Étienne Dupuis' "Eugene Onegin". They also performed together in "Eugene Onegin" at the Montreal Opera House in 2019, Car making her Canadian debut.
Car made her Covent Garden debut in 2015, singing Micaëla in Bizet's "Carmen", followed by Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" and a new production of "La bohème" as Mimì in the 2017/18 season. In 2020 she returns to the Royal Opera House as Mimì. Car had previously performed the role of Micaëla for Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour in 2013.
In Germany, Car performed at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Tatyana, Fiordiligi, Marguerite and a Verdi Gala Concert), the Semperoper Dresden (Mimì, Fiordiligi) and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (Tatyana). Car is back at Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2020 singing the title role of "Thaïs" alongside Étienne Dupuis.
In a review of her first recording, "The Kiss", Car's voice is described as possessing "a lovely lyric soprano".
Car made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in the role of Mimì ("La bohème") in September 2018, receiving critical acclaim from "The New York Times" for her "fine-grained tone and nuanced acting". She returned to the Met in 2020 as Fiordiligi in "Così fan tutte".
Performances at the Paris Opera have included Tatyana, Mimì, Micaëla and her role debut as Elisabetta di Valois in "Don Carlo" in the 2019/2020 season. She also sang the role of Donna Elvira in "Don Giovanni" in a new production at the Paris Opera which was broadcast by many international cinemas.
Personal life.
Car is married to Canadian baritone Étienne Dupuis. They have one child, Noah. Car was previously married to engineer Robin Stephenson.