A conversation with

Nadine Serra
Soprano

and

Fred Plotkin
Writer and Opera Expert

Organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in New York and

American Friends of the Donizetti Opera Festival

February 28, 2024 | 6:30PM

Italian Cultural Institute

686 Park Avenue, NY

RSVP at iicny.rsvp@gmail.com

Nadine Sierra (born May 14, 1988) is an American soprano. She is most well known for her interpretation of Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto, and Lucia in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. Currently performing in leading roles in the top opera houses around the world, she received the 1st Prize and People’s Choice Award 2013 at the Neue Stimmen competition, is the 2017 Richard Tucker Music Foundation Award Winner, and was awarded the Beverly Sills Artists Award in 2018. Her debut album on the Universal Music Group label, There’s a Place for Us, was released on August 24, 2018.

Fred Plotkin discovered the concept of “The Renaissance Man” as a small child growing up one block from Avery Fisher Hall, and he has devoted himself to pursuing that ideal. He has worked in opera since 1972, as well as in management, production, design, coaching, consulting, and broadcasting — everything but singing. As a Fulbright Scholar, he directed opera at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala and later was the performance manager of The Metropolitan Opera for five years.