Rachel Nicholls triumphs as Lady Macbeth

Rachel Nicholls has just sung Lady Macbeth for the first time in NI Opera’s production of Verdi’s Macbeth in Belfast’s Grand Opera House. Richard Morrison writes in The Times today: ‘Vocally, one performance shone out: Rachel Nicholls’s bloodcurdlingly powerful yet precise Lady Macbeth. She has emerged as the most thrilling British dramatic soprano of her generation……’

She has now just started rehearsals in Karlsruhe for a new production of Die Meistersinger in which she will sing her first Eva, opening on April 27 with performances running through to early July.

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