Eri Nakamura

During the 2024/25 season, Nakamura debuts with the Canadian Opera Company as Cio-Cio San Madama Butterfly, sings Amelia Un ballo in maschera at Suntory Hall, and appears in concert with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria (Karel Mark Chichon), Japan Philharmonic Orchestra (Leonard Slatkin) and for the Latvian National Opera.

Last season, she made her debut appearances with the Royal Swedish Opera (Cio-Cio San) and English National Opera (7 Deaths of Maria Callas) and sang her first Amelia Simon Boccanegra with The Hallé conducted by Sir Mark Elder. Recent highlights also include her role debut as Cio-Cio San at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, later performing the same role in her return to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and in concert with The Hallé, her first Magda La Rondine at Biwako Hall, and the role of Hanako in Toshio Hosokawa’s Hanjo with the Catapult Opera of New York and Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano.

For the ROH, she performed Musetta La bohème, Frasquita Carmen, Lauretta Gianni Schicchi and Giulietta I Capuleti e i Montecchi as Jette Parker Young Artist, and returned as guest to sing Susanna Le nozze di Figaro (Sir Colin Davis), Sophie Werther (Sir Antonio Pappano) and Liù Turandot. As ensemble member with the Bayerische Staatsoper, her many roles included Adina L’elisir d’amore, Gretel Hänsel und Gretel, Susanna, Pamina Die Zauberflöte, Zerlina Don Giovanni and Liu, and she has also appeared with the Wiener Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opera de Oviedo, New National Theatre, Tokyo, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile and Washington National Opera.

On the concert platform, recent highlights include Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the Japan, Osaka and Tokyo Philharmonic orchestras, Mahler Symphony No.4 and Rossini Stabat Mater with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (Yannick Nézet-Séguin), St Cecilia Mass with Orchestre National de France (Alain Altinoglou), Woglinde Das Rheingold with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (Jaap van Zweden), Dvorak Stabat Mater with the Czech Philharmonic, Ravel Shéhérazade with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, and appearances with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Pannon Philharmonic, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and NHK Symphony Orchestra.

Nakamura is an alumna of the Osaka College of Music, the Opera Studio at the New National Theatre Tokyo, the Opera Studio Nederland and the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House.

2024-25 season / 470 words. Not to be altered without permission