Rachel Nicholls

British soprano Rachel Nicholls is a prominent dramatic soprano, specializing in Wagner and other opera composers of the late 19th century. She has also sung Baroque music and is familiar to many through her appearances on recordings in conductor Masaaki Suzuki's Bach cantata cycle. Nicholls was born in Bedford, England, in 1975. She attended a local school whose strong music department she has credited for her success, telling the Independent that "quite a few of us have made fantastic careers in the music world thanks to our teacher there." Bedford offered a youth opera grou...