Nadine Sierra, the soprano who fills the Met and La Scala, opened Wigmore Hall's season with its annual gala concert on Tuesday 8 September 2026.
Nadine Sierra, the American soprano who sings at the Met and La Scala, opened Wigmore Hall’s season in Marylebone on Tuesday 8 September 2026. The annual gala concert had Bryan Wagorn at the piano.
Sierra won the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions in 2007 as the youngest singer ever to take it. The Richard Tucker Award followed in 2017 and the Met’s Beverly Sills Artist Award in 2018.
A lyric coloratura soprano, she sings Gilda, Lucia and Juliette, and has appeared at the Paris Opera and the Staatsoper Berlin. She records for Deutsche Grammophon.
Wigmore Hall opened in 1901 and has programmed almost nothing but song and chamber music since. Once a year it gives the opening night to one singer, and the gala sets out the terms of the nine months that follow.
The recital brought her into a hall that seats fewer than 600. The first half moved through Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Verdi’s “Sempre libera”. The second turned to Rodrigo’s 4 madrigales amatorios, Villa-Lobos and the Mexican songs “Bésame Mucho”, “Estrellita” and “Cielito lindo”.