Mezzo soprano Hillary Nicholson, has sung over fifty operatic roles, including Carmen, Dorabella, Cherubino, Maddalena, Dame Quickly, Emilia, Hansel, Suzuki and Orfeo with such noted companies as Cleveland Opera, Sacramento Opera and the Metropolitan in New York City.  She has also sung principal roles with the Kansas City Lyric, Kentucky, Tampa Bay, Dayton, Chattanooga, Skylight, Cleveland Lyric, Memphis, and Ocean State Lyric Opera Companies.  Praised by critics for her "rich, luscious tone" (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle) and "pure beauty of vocal sound" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), she has been called a "true stage artist" by Opera News.

Miss Nicholson’s repertoire ranges from such early Baroque operas as Monteverdi’s Ulysses (Penelope) and Cavalli’s La Calisto (Diana) to such twentieth-century roles as Britten’s Lucretia, both Nancy and Florence in separate productions of Albert Herring, and in such works as The Tender Land (Aaron Copland), Transformations (Conrad Susa), Rosina (Hiram Titus) and the World Premieres of Libby Larsen’s  Mrs. Dalloway, Richard Cumming’s The Picnic, and Richard Wargo’s Ballymore, which was broadcast on Public Television.  She was chosen by composer and conductor Anton Coppola to sing the role of Boston socialite Elizabeth Evans in the revival of his epic opera, “Sacco and Vanzetti” with Tampa Bay Opera.

Similarly in demand as a concert soloist, she has sung with the Symphonies of Detroit, St. Louis, Rochester, Tucson and Chattanooga, the Lake Placid Sinfonietta and the Britt, Bravo Vail Valley and Newport Music Festivals.  Upcoming concert engagements as soloist include Bach’s Mass in b-Minor, John Corigliano’s Fern Hill and Brahms’ Neue Liebeslieder Walzer.

Ms. Nicholson will be making her Intermezzo debut in Erik Satie's Socrate in May, 2008.