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. 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 National WWII Museum, the European Studies Conference, 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 and marketing and social media presence. 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.

In the summer of 2018, Nicole performed the role of Morgana in Handel's Alcina at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival in addition to culminating her studies at Towson University as Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro in TU's 2018 operatic season. Nicole began her Masters career at Towson in Fall 2016, performing Laetitia in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief. In the spring, she performed in major scenes including the entirety of Act I from Don Pasquale as Norina and the Dorine/Marianne duet from Tartuffe. In the 2016 summer season, Nicole performed as Amore in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea and as a cover for Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni with New York Lyric Opera Theatre as an apprentice artist. In the 2015 summer season, Nicole performed with Miami Summer Music Festival (MSMF) as a Spirit in Cendrillon and the cover of the Dew Fairy in Hansel und Gretel. She performed as the Second Spirit in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with MSMF and was also featured as a soloist in the Frost Chorale’s United Kingdom Tour in the summer of 2014. In previous years she attended Spoleto Study Abroad, University of Miami School of Music at Salzburg, and Northwestern Music Institute.