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Nicola Beller Carbone. Opera singer and actress, August 21, 1964, Mannheim, Germany.

She spends a good part of her childhood in Spain, until the early 90s, coinciding with times of the “Spanish transition” and the years of the “Movida Madrileña”, the countercultural movement representing a new Spanish identity. Her first contact with the artistic world is with groups of street theater, cabaret, performance, in which different styles of music and theater are often mixed: rock and flamenco music, Jazz, dance, pantomime, disguise and parody, By chance she discovers her vocal skills as a classical singer, and decides to study singing at the Escuela Superior de Canto in Madrid with Dolores Ripolles.

1991: she joins the Opera Studio of the Bayrische Staatsoper München, Bavaria. This forces her to leave Madrid and adjust to life in Germany.

The Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera then included the presence of Astrid Varnay who works with Nicola Beller Carbone in vocal interpretation.

Helmut Matthiasek offers her a contract as a soloist in Gärtnerplatztheater, Munich where she performs many roles of lyric repertoire. A few years later she accepts a permanent contract at the National Theater Mannheim, which binds her for another 5 years to the German opera world.

Since 2001 she is a free-lance artist, and lives in Italy.

Her debut in Salome in 2003 decides the future of her career: later interpreting this role in many other theaters (Teatro Regio in Turin with Robert Carsen and Gian Andrea Noseda, in Geneva with Nicolas Brieger and Gabriele Ferro, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife with Pier Luigi Pizzi and Oleg Caetani, in Brussels with Guy Joosten and Carlo Rizzi, and in Zürich with Sven Eric Bechtholf and Cornelius Meister).

Following Salome, she sings Marie in Wozzeck by A. Berg in Santa Fe with Daniel Slater, Marietta in Tote Stadt by Korngold in Palermo and Frankfurt, Lady Macbeth von Mtsensk by Shostakowich in Toronto with Paul Curran and Berlin Neuenfels, Jenny in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny by Weill in Berlin, Leonora in Karl V  by Krenek in Bregenz with Uwe Laufenberg and Lothar Koenigs, The Ring at La Fenice with Robert Carsen and Jeffrey Tate, Tosca in Beijing with Gian Carlo del Monaco and many other roles connected with   repertoire of the twentieth century. In 2011 she sings the world premiere of the opera Senso by Marco Tutino at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo with Hugo de Ana and Pinchas Steinberg and Der König Kandaules by Zemlinsky, also at the Teatro Massimo, with Asher Fisch.

She will make her debut in Madrid in May of 2013 with the Spanish opera Pepita Jimenez by Albeniz, directed by Calixto Bieito. Also in 2013, Die Gezeichneten by Schreker at the Opera Köln, Der Zwerg by Zemlinsky at the Opera National in Paris, Die Soldaten by Zimmermann at the Bayrische Staatsoper Munich and Chrysothemis in Elektra by Strauss at the Montreal Opera.

Videography: Krenek: Karl V, Kehraus um St. Stephan / Koenigs, Axelrod Krenek / Wiener Symphoniker / Koenigs Release Date: 09/29/2009 Label: Capriccio Records Catalog #: 9001

Discography: Friederike by Franz Lehár performed in German Conducted by Lawrence Foster - 2009 (LI) Orchestra - Orchestre National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon