Danielle de Niese

She became the youngest singer ever to participate in the Young Artists Studio at the Metropolitan Opera,[4] where she debuted in 1998 at the age of 19 as Barbarina in a new production of The Marriage of Figaro directed by Jonathan Miller and conducted by James Levine.

[5] Ridley Scott's 2001 film Hannibal features a scene from Dante's La Vita Nuova; in it, de Niese sings as the character Beatrice the song "Vide Cor Meum" by Patrick Cassidy.

In 2009, de Niese made her Covent Garden debut in The Royal Opera's production of Handel's Acis and Galatea, directed by choreographer Wayne McGregor and recorded on DVD.

In August 2015 she returned to the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in performances of Concepción in L'heure espagnole and the title role in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges.

[15] In 2019 she played Aldonza/Dulcinea in Man of La Mancha with English National Opera at the London Coliseum opposite Kelsey Grammer as Cervantes/Quixote, Peter Polycarpou as Sancho, and Nicholas Lyndhurst as the Governor/Innkeeper.

[16] In February 2020 she created the title role in the world premiere of Eurydice, written by Matthew Aucoin with a libretto by Sarah Ruhl, at the Los Angeles Opera.

[17] In May 2023 she sang the role of Giulietta in the West End revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Aspects of Love at the Lyric Theatre, London.