Erika Nadir

Erika Nadir is an actor and singer who has performed the traditional operatic canon for nearly 20 years including La Bohème, Carmen, Pagliacci, La Traviata, The Barber of Seville, I Pagliacci, Crispino e la Comare, La Cena delle Beffe, Don Giovanni, Così Fan Tutte, Madame Butterfly, Un Ballo in Maschera, Rigoletto, Hansel & Gretel, Amahl & the Night Visitors, Falstaff, Aida, Manon, and The Magic Flute, as well as originating roles in two American premières of the South American composer, Antonio Carlos Gomez: Salvator Rosa and Lo Schiavo, and the title role of the first fully-staged American première of Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Alzira. Dr.Nadir has also performed fully-staged opera tours in the New York City elementary school system. Her operetta and musical theatre credits include Showboat, The Desert Song, The Merry Widow, The New Moon, The Fantastiks, Babes in Arms, and 1776. This past season she appeared In the Hollywood Fringe Festival's dual-language (Italian) production of The Original English and she has appeared in the Los Angeles Repertory Theatre's productions of George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah and Ibsen's A Doll's House. Other plays include Mary Mary, The Time of Your Life, Antigone, The Infernal Machine, Pygmalion, There's a Girl in My Soup, Rhinoceros, Wild Honey,The Country Wife, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Frankenstein. Her most recent film credits include For a Moment dir. Mavi Mercan and Hearts that Bleed and Bloom, dir. Seth Bakke.