Kaylee nihols
mezzo
Kaylee Nichols, American mezzo-soprano, has been hailed as “stellar”, “energetic,” and “excellent.” Appearing this summer at Santa Fe Opera, Kaylee is performing as Flora Bervoix in La traviata and covering Michele in the world premiere of The Righteous. There, she will also be appearing as Katharine in an excerpt performance of Finding Wright, by Laura Kaminsky (composer) and Andrea Fellows Fineberg (librettist), in an evening celebrating the librettist.
The 2022-2023 season brought Ms. Nichols back to Nashville Opera as Mrs. Nolan in The Medium, and to Cincinnati Opera as Michele in The Righteous (workshop). She also made her Santa Fe Opera debut as Kitchen Boy in Rusalka, while contracted as an Apprentice Singer.
In 2021-2022, Ms. Nichols made her debut with the Springfield Symphony as the Alto Soloist in their Mozart Requiem. As a member of the Bonfils-Stanton Artist Training Program at Central City Opera, she covered the title role in Dido and Aeneas and appeared as Giovanna in the family performance of Rigoletto. She also appeared with Nashville Opera to reprise her role as Maddalena in Rigoletto, and with Sarasota Opera as an Apprentice Artist.
During the 2019-2020 season, she made role debuts as Mercedes in Carmen with Chattanooga Symphony & Opera and Maddalena in Rigoletto with Opera Project Columbus. She also joined Nashville Opera as a member of the Mary Ragland Emerging Artist Program. During her residency, Ms. Nichols appeared as the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Angie in Pepito, and Mrs. Grose in Turn of the Screw. In the summer of 2020, Kaylee was accepted as an Active Participant in the Dandelion Opera Institute, an intensive online training program.
In the 2018 season, Ms. Nichols made role and house debuts such as Tisbe & Angelina (c) in La Cenerentola with Opera Project Columbus and Nashville Opera as Flora in La Traviata . In the concert realm, Ms. Nichols debuted with Butler Philharmonic Orchestra as the Mezzo-Soprano soloist in Mozart’s Mass in C minor and Handel's Messiah.
In the 2017 season, Ms. Nichols returned to Nightingale Opera Theatre to sing the role of Vera Boronel and the Secretary in The Consul and the Monitor in Suor Angelica with Opera Project Columbus. She also appeared as Zerlina in #UncleJohn with Opera Columbus: Opera on the Edge Series, and debuted with the New Albany Symphony in their Holiday Spectacular.
Ms. Nichols made her debuts with Opera Columbus in Twisted2, Nightingale Opera Theatre leading the young artist cast as Jo March in Little Women, and Opera Project Columbus as La Madre di Mariuccia in Nino Rota's I due Timidi. Also in 2016, Ms. Nichols sang with Great Lakes Light Opera in the One World Day Festival.
Ms. Nichols concert experience includes Mozart Mass in C minor, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Haydn’s Missa Brevis in F, Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Brittan, Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein, and various recordings for Chorister’s Guild.
