Nadine Sierra
Soprano Nadine Sierra has received the 13th annual Beverly Sills Artist Award for young singers at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. The $50,000 award, the largest of its kind in the United States, is given to particularly gifted singers between the ages of 25 and 40 who have already appeared in featured solo roles at the Met. The award, given in honor of Beverly Sills, was established in 2006 by an endowment gift from the late Agnes Varis, a managing director on the Met board.
Nadine Sierra, born in 1988 in Fort Lauderdale won already the Marilyn Horne Foundation Award in 2007.
She began singing at the age of 14 at the Palm Beach Opera and made her debut two years later in Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck. She has sung at the Florida Grand Opera, at La Scala in Milan, at the New York Metropolitan Opera and at Opéra Bastille in Paris.
