News: Ms. Lorcini will make her Virginia Opera debut in February 2011, as the vengeful goddess Fricka, in eight performances of Wagner's Die Walküre.

Canadian-British mezzosoprano Nina Lorcini, a native of Montréal and a fourth-generation professional musician, made her New York debut at Carnegie Hall as the Alto and Soprano II soloist in Vivaldi's Gloria.

Her debut with Opera at Florham, performing her first Adalgisa, soon followed, and was met with public and critical acclaim. "The true heroine of this Norma was the Italian Canadian mezzo soprano...(la) protagonista assoluta..." declared Franco Borelli of America Oggi.

2010

In May, Ms. Lorcini debuted the first section of the new opera by Canadian composer Ian McAndrew, Mother of Kings, a sweeping epic of the life and children of Eleanor of Aquitaine, in the role of Eleanor, created specifically for her. She will be a soloist in the inaugural season of the Buck Hill-Sky Top Music Festival this coming August.

She returns to London in October to make her role debut as Kundry, the cursed temptress of Richard Wagner's Parsifal.

2009
January saw Ms. Lorcini's return to One World Symphony (she debuted with the company as soloist in Brahms' Alto Rhapsody in 2008), as Richard Strauss' demented Greek queen, Klytämnestra.

In February, she made her London debut as Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walküre (also a role debut), alongside the Siegmund of American heldentenor Jon Morrell.

In April, she recorded Canadian composer Ian McAndrew's Rest, written for her, with the Annex quartet. Her London Sieglinde performance was repeated, by popular demand, in September.

Other career highlights include performances with Opera Hamilton, and her triumphs as featured soloist in both an all-opera program with Symphony Hamilton and as award recipient and soloist with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, singing Dalila opposite teacher and mentor, late Metropolitan Opera baritone Louis Quilico.

Tall, slim and elegant, Nina Lorcini brings to the stage a rare combination of dramatic intensity, vocal beauty, polished craft and intelligent musicianship. She has been the recipient of many awards and scholarships, including the Ruby Mercer Fellowship, the Canadian Opera Company Council Award, and a career development grant from the Chalmers Arts Council.