“…a vocally resplendent and dramatically commanding assumption of
the role (Butterfly)
that deserves a special accolade…Hard to imagine it being better
done in any of the great opera houses of the world.”
Roger Knight, State of the Arts, February 2006
Nicole Youl is one of Australia’s leading sopranos. She gained a
Diploma of Arts in Music from the Victorian College of the Arts
where she studied singing with Dame Joan Hammond. In 1991, Miss
Youl won the Herald-Sun Aria after which she travelled to London for
further study. She was a finalist in the 1994 Placido Domingo World
Operalia competition in Mexico City and won both the Metropolitan
Opera Awards in 1995 and the Rome Opera Award in 1996. She also won
the Australian Singing Competition’s Opera Awards in 2002.
Miss
Youl enjoys a growing reputation in the works of Verdi and Puccini –
she has performed the title role in Madama Butterfly (Opera
Australia), Mimi in La bohème (OA, Opera Queensland, Paiz
Festival in Guatemala), title role in Tosca (OA, Victorian
State Opera), Leonora in Il Trovatore (West Australian
Opera), Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi (OA) and Liu in
Turandot (OA). Other roles include Elsa in Lohengrin
(OA), Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana (WAO), Micaela in
Carmen (OA, OQ and WAO), Diane in Iphigenie en Tauride
(OA), Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni (VSO), 1st Lady in The
Magic Flute (OA) and Die Vertraute and Die Vierte Maid in Elektra
(Teatro dell’ opera di Roma)
On
the concert platform, Nicole Youl has performed as soprano soloist
in Mahler’s 8th Symphony, Verdi’s Requiem,
Rachmaninov’s The Bells, Bruckner’s Te Deum and
Strauss’ Four Last Songs with the major Australian
orchestras. She sang Wellgunde in Götterdämmerung and Tove
in Gurrelieder for the Perth Festival, and Ortlinde in Die
Walküre for the Sydney Symphony. Festival appearances include
the Queensland Biennial of Music and the Coriole Festival.
2007
sees performances as Leonora in Il Trovatore for Opera
Australia in Sydney and Melbourne and the soprano solos in Mahler’s
Symphony No. 2 with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
Further information available at
www.patricktogher.com
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