Nuccia Focile
Soprano

Nuccia Focile has appeared in most of the world’s leading opera houses since her debut as Oscar in Verdi’s Ballo in maschera at Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 1985. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1995 as Mimì in Puccini’s Bohème. Recently, Focile has sung all over Europe and across this country in such roles as Elisabetta in Verdi’s Don Carlos for Welsh National Opera, Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte for the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago, Adina in Donizetti’s Elisir d’amore for Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Mimì for Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Seattle Opera, and Musetta in the same opera for Royal Opera Covent Garden. Last season Focile sang the title role in Gluck’s Iphigenia in Tauris and Nedda in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci in Seattle. Upcoming engagements include Alice Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff, the Countess in Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro, the title role in Menotti’s Maria Golovin, Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello, Violetta in Verdi’s Traviata, and Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, the role in which she made her Seattle Opera debut in 2002. She returns to Seattle Opera in 2009 as Violetta in Verdi’s Traviata.