Nicole Steinberg is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and former Director of Operations and Media of Opera Baltimore. Her current research examines Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s 1968 Holocaust opera The Passenger within trauma studies, moral responsibility and memorialization frameworks. She has been awarded the Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year by the University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities. Steinberg has published a Holocaust awareness lesson plan with Towson University’s Albert S. Cook Library in conjunction with the Jewish Museum of Maryland and has given lectures at various Maryland organizations surrounding opera and Holocaust commemoration. Nicole has presented papers at the American Musicological Society, the Society on Music Since 1900, the International Network of Genocide Scholars, the National WWII Museum, the European Studies Conference, the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual International Conference, the Capital Chapter of the American Musicological Society, and the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

Nicole served as the Director of Operations and Media at Opera Baltimore from 2018-2023 where she managed the company’s finances, data analysis, patron relations, marketing, and social media development. During her five-year tenure, she helped Opera Baltimore grow from a small budget non-profit to a million-dollar budget arts organization.

Prior to her musicological research and administrative work, Nicole had come from a performance background, receiving a Master of Music in Voice Performance from Towson University in 2018 and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Miami in 2016. She spent the early portion of her career performing various soprano roles with institutions and festivals including Towson University (2016-2018), the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival (2018), New York Lyric Opera Theatre (2016), the Miami Summer Music Festival (2015), and the University of Maryland Frost School of Music (2012-2016).