Bio
Ruby Nightingale is an Australian Soprano and composer based in New York. This summer she was a Young Artist with Nightingale Opera Theatre in Ohio. In 2021 she joined the National Opera Intensive of Canada-based Against the Grain Theatre/University of Toronto, as well as the Westchester Summer Voice Institute in New York City. She was a 2020 Britten-Pears Young Artist in London (Composition, Alternative Performance, and Performance Art Program). Performances include Frank Denyer's The Fish that became the Sun with Rubythroat ensemble at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (premiere recorded by BBC Radio and winner of Royal Philharmonic Society’s large-scale composition Award), Trinity Laban’s opera scenes as La Fée in Massenet's Cendrillon, Agathe in Weber's Der Freischütz with Opera at Bearwood, and Sancho Panza in Don Quixote visits the Duchess by Boismortier with Richmond Opera. She has performed as a soloist in GrandMother by Esmeralda Conde Ruiz Union Chapel, and Southbank Centre's Women of the World Festival in London, and a solo recital of contemporary repertoire including her own song cycle we will part for voice, loop pedal, and harmonium, at The Swiss Church in London. She made her conducting debut at The Normansfield Theatre in 2018 as Assistant Music Director of Richmond Opera.
Highlights of ensemble engagements in London have included performing in Imagine, a vocal and video collaboration between Esmeralda Conde Ruiz and Yoko Ono, and singing with CLOD Ensemble at Somerset House's unveiling of Ai Wei Wei's flag honouring the 70th anniversary of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Ruby has sung as a member of the Bronx Opera Chorus, placed in the William Haralson Vocal Competition in New York, and performed her own composed and improvised work in Hong Kong, New York, and London. In 2019, she was the winner of the National Operatic and Dramatic Association's Malcom Rose Award in London.
Ruby earned her Bachelor of Music with Honors at The Hartt School of Music and Dance, performing Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute, Mae Jones in Kurt Weill's Street Scene, and Bird in Ned Rorem's Fables. She recently earned her Master of Music with Distinction at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, UK.
Recent Engagements
Summer 2022
Nightingale Opera Theatre, Ohio
Ada, A Certain Madness (Hans Bridger Heruth)
First Woman / Selena (Cover), If I Were You (Jake Heggie)
Ada's Aria, Cold Mountain (Jennifer Higdon), 21st Century Arias Recital
Kevin McMillan Masterclass
Summer 2021
National Opera Intensive with Against the Grain Theatre and UofT
Elliot Madore Masterclass
Sandra Horst Masterclass
Summer 2021
Westchester Summer Vocal Institute
Louis Burkot Masterclass
Peter Randsman Masterclass
September 2020
Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme
Composition, Alternative Performance, and Performance Art
June 2020 - Cancelled
Pepik in The Cunning Little Vixen by Janáček
Trinity Laban Opera
May 2020
Und ist kein betrug... from Wozzeck by Berg
Robert Alderson Masterclass
May 2020 - Postponed
Birdsong (Works by Messiaen, Rhian Samuel, Georgia Turner / Improvisation)
Solo lecture recital at Trinity Laban Conservatoire
May 2020 - Cancelled
Contessa di Folleville in Il Viaggio a Reims by Rossini
Trinity Laban Opera Scenes Concert
April 2020 - Cancelled
The Oak Dreams by Joshua Kaye / Clare Wigzell
Leeds Lieder Festival
January 2020
Here you come again (Dolly Parton) graphic score by Ruby Nightingale
Housmans Bookshop, London