During the 2023/24 season, Nakamura makes her debut appearances with the Royal Swedish Opera as Cio-Cio San Madama Butterfly and English National Opera in 7 Deaths of Maria Callas. In 2022/23 she performed Toshio Hosokawa Hanjo in a co-production by the Catapult Opera of New York and Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano, and Mimi La boheme in Tokyo, also appearing in concert with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Pannon Philharmonic and in a Verdi Gala for the Scottish Opera.
Recent highlights include her role debut 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 (Sir Mark Elder). She also sang her first Magda La Rondine at Biwako Hall and appeared in concert with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra (Beethoven’s 9th Symphony) and Tokyo Symphony Orchestra (Ravel Shéhérazade).
Previously she sang Woglinde Götterdämmerung as part of National Taichung Theater’s four year Ring Cycle programme, directed by Carlus Padrissa, Mimi at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile, Woglinde with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Clorinda La Cenerentola at the Wiener Staatsoper, Susanna Le nozze di Figaro at the New National Theatre Tokyo and Hyogo performing Arts Centre, and Liù Turandot at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opera de Oviedo and Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse. Other recent highlights include Juliette Roméo et Juliette at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile, Gilda Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Salzburger Landestheater, and Pamina Die Zauberflöte for Washington National Opera.
Between 2010-2016, Nakamura was a member of the ensemble at the Bayerische Staatsoper where roles included Adina L’elisir d’amore, Gretel Hänsel und Gretel, Susanna Le nozze di Figaro, Pamina Die Zauberflöte, Woglinde, Zerlina Don Giovanni, Frasquita Carmen, and Giulietta I Capuleti e I Montecchi.
On the concert platform, recent highlights include Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the Japan and Osaka Philharmonic and Tokyo Philharmonic orchestras, Mahler Symphony No.4 and Rossini Stabat Mater under Yannick Nézet-Séguin with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, St Cecilia Mass with Alain Altinoglou and Orchestre National de France, Dvorak Stabat Mater with the Czech Philharmonic, Ravel Shéhérazade with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, and Woglinde Das Rheingold with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Jaap van Zweden.
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. Whilst on the Programme, roles at Covent Garden roles included Musetta La bohème, Frasquita Carmen, and Lauretta Gianni Schicchi. Upon her graduation from the programme, she returned to Covent Garden as a guest to sing Susanna Le nozze di Figaro under Sir Colin Davis and Sophie Werther under Sir Antonio Pappano, which was recorded by Deutsche Grammophon.
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