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• Nicole Franklin, soprano, completed her bachelor's degree in vocal performance at Baylor University. She then went on to receive a master's degree, also in vocal performance, from Rice University where she studied with Dr. Joyce Farwell. Nicole has participated in various training programs, such as AIMS in Graz, Austria and the Amarillo Opera Apprentice program. She has performed Tytania in ;A Midsummer Night's Dream, Norina in ;Don Pasquale, Laetitia in ;The Old Maid and the Thief, Susanna in ;Le Nozze di Figaro ;and Gretel in ;Hansel and Gretel, Nella in ;Gianni Schicchi, ;Pamina in ;Die Zauberflöte, Lightfoot in ;Cold Sassy Tree, Sylvia in ;L'isola Disabitata, and Lauretta in Puccini's ;Gianni Schicchi. Franklin sings the role of Laetitia on the first professional recording of Menotti's ;The Old Maid and the Thief ;with Lone Spring Arts in Dallas, Texas. The CD was released in December 2007 under the Albany label.
  In addition to opera, Nicole has done solo work such as Mendelssohn's ;Elijah, ;and Mozart's ;Great Mass in C minor, in which the Dallas Morning News hailed her as "superb", with a "bright" and "tangy" sound. She has also appeared as a soloist in Dubois' ;Seven Last Words of Christ, Mozart's ;Requiem, Rutter's ;Requiem, Bach’s Johannes-Passion, Vaughan Williams’s Hodie, Haydn's ;Lord Nelson Mass and his Theresienmesse. Ms. Franklin also sang as the soprano soloist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in their Christmas celebration, ;Hope. Nicole will be the featured soloist on a Spring Concert for the Uintah Basin Orchestra and Chorus in Vernal, Utah. Ms. Franklin resides in Greenville, North Carolina, where she is an adjunct voice professor at East Carolina University.