Nicole Car

Australian soprano Nicole Car has established herself as one of the leading sopranos of her generation and has become a regular presence at major international opera houses. She is praised for her beautiful, rich timbre and distinctive musicality, and was recently appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic.

In the 2024/25 season, she makes four significant role debuts: Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Vienna State Opera, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera at the Bavarian State Opera, Matréna in Mazeppa with the Munich Radio Orchestra, and the title role in Dvořák’s Rusalka at Opera Australia. She also appears as Mimì in La bohème at San Francisco Opera.

Career highlights include Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes at her debut at La Scala in Milan; Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and Elisabetta in Don Carlo at the Opéra National de Paris; Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Mimì and Ellen Orford at the Metropolitan Opera; Tatiana in Eugene Onegin and Mimì both at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and at the Bavarian State Opera; Elisabetta and Salomé in Hérodiade at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; as well as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro and the title role in Luisa Miller at Opera Australia.

Nicole Car won first prize at the 2013 Neue Stimmen competition and at the Australia Opera Awards. She currently serves, together with her husband, baritone Étienne Dupuis, as Artistic Director of the Institut Canadien d’Art Vocal (ICAV).

She made her debut at the Vienna State Opera in 2020 as Tatiana and has since appeared there as Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Marguerite in Faust, Mimì and Desdemona in Otello.