Danielle de Niese has been hailed as “opera’s coolest soprano” (New York Times Magazine).
A multi-faceted artist, she is known for her superb stagecraft, assured singing, and powerful communication. She regularly appears on the world’s most prestigious opera and concert stages and is also a prolific recording artist, television personality, and philanthropist.
In the 2025/26 season, de Niese returns to Opera Australia in the title role of Bizet’s Carmen, where last season she made her debut and makes her role debut as Jenny in Weill’s The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny with English National Opera. De Niese also makes her concert debut with the London Mozart Players in an all-Mozart programme, conducted by Jonathan Bloxham.
Last season, De Niese made her debut as Alice Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff with Hamburg State Opera. On the concert platform, De Niese performed Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins with the New World Symphony, a double bill of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Seven Deadly Sins with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and gave a recital in The Master Series at King’s Place.
Last updated: 16th December 2025
