“Nicholls’s rich soprano rang out, eloquently matched by Jean-François Madeuf, hand on hip, on a temperamental baroque trumpet. This was Bach’s most unusually scored cantata of the three, and a wonder at that, its final Hallelujah, trumpet again resplendent, fiendish, with Nicholls’s voice folding round the ensemble in voluptuous embrace.”

The Times, 2009

Welcome

Soprano Rachel Nicholls made her début at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden in 2001, after training at the Royal College of Music. She made her international concert début in Halle in 2000 and since then her career  on the operatic stage, in concert and as an international recording artist has taken her all over the world, from her native UK , throughout Europe all the way to the USA and the Far East.

Conductors with whom she has worked in opera and concert include Thomas Dausgaard, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Colin Davis, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Valery Gergiev, Martin Gester, Richard Hickox, Jean-Claude Malgoire,     Sir Roger Norrington, Antonio Pappano, Sir Simon Rattle, Steven Sloane and Masaaki Suzuki.

Rachel’s reputation as one of the most versatile artists of her generation is due to her repertoire, which ranges from J.S. Bach to Michael Berkeley.

For a full biography see biography page.