18 Facts About Nicole Cabell

Nicole Cabell was born on October 17,1977 and is an American opera singer.

Nicole Cabell is best known as the 2005 winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.

Nicole Cabell is of African American, Korean and Caucasian ancestry, and was brought up in the California beach town of Ventura.

Nicole Cabell's mother encouraged her to join the school choir and she tried out for a school musical and was a success.

At the age of 15, Cabell began to notice that "People obviously can hear something, even if I can't", she said.

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Subsequently Sorisio continued to teach Miss Nicole Cabell; he prepared her for her auditions for various music schools and public performances.

Nicole Cabell then entered the Juilliard School, but only for a very brief time, as she had been asked to join the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists at the Lyric Opera of Chicago where she remained for three years.

Nicole Cabell continued to study with Rolandi, who was the director of the newly renamed Ryan Opera Center.

Nicole Cabell returned home to Ventura and performed for the Ventura Music Festival, which included a reunion with pianist Vincent Sorisio in a performance for her former school, Ventura High School in 2008.

Nicole Cabell made her Royal Opera House debut at the Barbican as Princesse Eudoxie in a concert performance of Halevy's La Juive, on September 19,2006, conducted by Daniel Oren.

Nicole Cabell sang the role of Adina in L'elisir d'amore in Montpellier.

Nicole Cabell was planning to make her debut at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin in mid-December 2006, but due to the last-minute indisposition of soprano Angela Gheorghiu, Cabell was asked to step in, and her debut took place somewhat earlier - on 7 December - as Juliette in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette alongside Neil Shicoff.

Nicole Cabell had previously sung the role at the Spoleto Festival USA in May 2006.

Nicole Cabell made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera on December 22,2008, singing the role of Pamina in The Magic Flute.

Nicole Cabell's repertoire includes Pamina, Juliette, The Countess, Adina, The Vixen, Musetta, Lauretta and La Ciesca, Clara, La Princesse in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortileges, La Femme in Poulenc's La voix humaine, Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw and Arsamenes in Xerxes.

Nicole Cabell has collaborated with major conductors such as Sir Andrew Davis, James Conlon, Daniel Barenboim, Antonio Pappano, Andre Previn and Sir Raymond Leppard.

Nicole Cabell sang the title role in the 2007 recording of Donizetti's Imelda de' Lambertazzi for Opera Rara, conducted by Mark Elder with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Nicole Cabell appeared in a filmed version of Puccini's La Boheme as Musetta for Deutsche Grammophon, alongside Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bertrand de Billy.