Paula Nesticó

• First-place winner at the Beethoven Club Competition in Memphis, TN - 2017

Argentine-American mezzo soprano, Paula Sofía Nesticó, has been praised for her rich and formidable voice. Devoted to promoting reconciliation between the Americas, she has introduced audiences to several vocal works of Argentine composers in the native castellano accent. These include Carlos Guastavino’s Cuatro canciones coloniales, Flores Argentinas, and La rosa y el sauce.

Most recently, Ms. Nesticó took the stage to perform selections from the spiritual and oratorio repertoire including Moses Hogan’s “Were you there” and “O rest in the Lord '' from Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Seattle, WA. She also appeared in a ‘pop up’ concert at Snohomish Carnegie with a rendition of the famous “Seguidilla” from Bizet’s Carmen.

She appeared as Madame de la Haltière in Cendrillon, L'écureuil in L'enfant et les sortilèges and a scene as Salud in La vida breve and was invited to perform a selection from Logan Skelton’s song cycle Letters to Santa (Loyola University New Orleans). She would have ended the 2020 season performing the title role in Dido and Aeneas (Canceled due to Covid-19).

Other credits include: Dritte Dame and Dritte Knabe in Die Zauberflöte at the German Vocal Arts Institute, scenes as Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus and Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, at the International Performing Arts Institute, Germany and Mercedes in Carmen, Nursemaid in Street Scene, Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte and Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro with Union University's Opera Workshop.

Ms. Nesticó holds a Master of Music degree in voice performance from Loyola University New Orleans in Louisiana and a Bachelor of Music degree in voice performance from Union University in Jackson, TN.