Nikki Li Hartliep

Hartliep was born in Naha, Okinawa Island, and grew up in Alaska. She received her undergraduate degree in 1981 from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.{{Cite web|title=San Francisco Conservatory of Music Reference|url=https://sfcm.edu/sites/default/files/Library%20-%20Archives%20-%20Oral%20History%20Project%20-%20Willene%20Gunn.pdf}} During her master's degree studies she took her first audition and was awarded a contract with San Francisco Opera's touring company, Western Opera Theater (1982).{{Cite web|title=San Francisco Opera, Western Opera Theater|url=https://sfpl.org/locations/main-library/art-music/newspaper-clipping-files/newspaper-clipping-file-subjects-s}}

In the United States, Hartliep performed leading roles with San Francisco Opera,{{Cite book|last=Chatfield-Taylor|first=Joan|title=San Francisco Opera: The First Seventy-Five Years|publisher=Chronicle Books|year=1997|isbn=0-8118-1368-1|location=San Francisco|pages=174–176}} Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Seattle Opera,{{Cite web|title=Seattle Opera, Madame Butterfly Program|url=https://seattleopera50.com/?photo=198889-madama-butterfly-program}} Minnesota Opera,{{Cite book|last=Holliday|first=Thomas|title=Falling Up: The Days and Nights of Carlisle Floyd|publisher=Syracuse University Press|year=2013|isbn=978-0815610038|location=New York|page=312}} Florida Grand Opera,{{Cite book|title=Florida Grand Opera Program Details|oclc=823140170|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/823140170}} Opera Colorado, Atlanta Opera, Austin Opera, The Florentine Opera, Nevada Opera and numerous other regional opera companies.

Outside the U.S., her international operatic performances have included leading roles with Canadian Opera,{{Cite book|last=Schabas|first=Ezra|title=Opera Viva: The Canadian Opera Company The First Fifty Years|publisher=Dundurn|year=2000|isbn=1550023462|location=Toronto|page=282}} Teatro Teresa Carreno (Caracas, Venezuela), Dublin Grand Opera,{{Cite web|title=Dublin Opera Program|date=26 September 2020 |url=https://operainireland.wordpress.com/1990-madama-butterfly-puccini/}} and the Seiji Ozawa Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto (Japan).

Hartliep debuted at Carnegie Hall in 1990 as the soprano soloist (Widow) in Mendelssohn's Elijah with Sherrill Milnes,{{Cite web|title=Carnegie Hall Performance History|url=https://www.mastervoices.org/about-us/our-history/performance-history/}} the Collegiate Chorale and the Orchestra of St. Luke's.New York. March 26, 1990. p. 111. "Music and Dance Directory", compiled by Florence Fletcher Later that year she appeared at Carnegie Hall in an historic performance of Jenůfa with Eve Queler and Opera Orchestra of New York (which was recorded live on the Bis label). Other orchestral appearances have included the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Teatre Liceu de Barcelona Orchestre,{{Cite web|title=Concert with Gran Teatre Del Liceu|url=https://studylib.es/doc/6722389/descargar-información---teatro-de-la-maestranza}} Minnesota Orchestra,{{Cite web|title=Minnesota Orchestra Performance Listing|url=http://cpanda.princeton.edu/pdfs/csob/2904.pdf}} Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Sacramento Symphony Orchestra, New Hampshire Symphony, Napa Valley Symphony, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, and other national regional orchestras.

Conductors who Hartliep has worked with include Kurt Herbert Adler, Maurizo Arena, Bruno Bartoletti, Richard Bonynge, Carlo Cillario, John Fiore, Henry Lewis, Sir Charles Mackerras, George Manahan, Eduard Muller, Seiji Ozawa, Imre Pallo, Sir John Pritchard, Nelson Riddle, Julius Rudel, Rodolfo Saglimbeni, Patrick Summers, and Edo de Waart.

Selected as an affiliate artist, Hartliep was in residence in communities throughout the U.S., with an opera outreach from 1984 until 1987. She was also named as a guest artist for the series "Meet the Artist at Lincoln Center" from 1995 until 1998.{{Cite web|title=Lincoln Center Artist Information|url=http://www.aboutlincolncenter.org/education-community/lincoln-center-education/meet-the-artist/meet-the-artist}}

Hartliep has taught in a variety of distinguished educational institutions to students at all levels: undergraduate, post-graduate, doctoral, and professional apprenticeship singers, in private voice lessons, studio classes, and masterclasses. On the faculty at Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, (2003–2014), as assistant professor of voice, part-time, Hartliep began concurrently teaching while on the performance faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (2003–2005). She was also on faculty with the college division of New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida (1998–1999), and was appointed vocal advisor to Florida Grand Opera apprenticeship program (2000–2001).{{Cite web|title=San Francisco Conservatory Voice Faculty Listing|url=http://www.carlapasqualini.com/uploads/8/5/4/1/8541998/calendar_2.pdf}}{{Cite web|title=New World School of the Arts, Miami - Teacher|url=https://spiral.lynn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=conservatory_guestrecitals}}{{Cite web|title=Eastman School of Music - Teacher|url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/515c7a9de4b02ae078519a45/t/583cf074725e25dc115cdfdb/1480388725231/DRB+Performance+Resume+Website+2016.pdf}}{{Cite book|title=Florida Grand Opera|oclc=823140170|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/823140170}}{{Cite web|title=San Francisco Conservatory Faculty Listing|url=http://www.carlapasqualini.com/uploads/8/5/4/1/8541998/annualreport.pdf}}

Hartliep has maintained a private voice studio since 1999, most recently located at the National Opera Center in Manhattan, New York, with semi-professional and professional singers appearing with opera companies both nationally and internationally. Singers from the studio have been selected as young artists in such prestigious residency programs as the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program (Metropolitan Opera), Seattle Opera Young Artist Program, The Benenson Young Artist Program (Palm Beach Opera), and also have been invited as participants in summer young artist programs: Glimmerglass Festival Young Artists Program, Merola Opera Program (San Francisco Opera), Opera Theater of Saint Louis Gerdine Young Artist Program, Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program for Young Artists, Aspen Music Festival and School, to name a few.  In addition, studio singers are winners in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the George London Foundation Competition, the Opera Index Vocal Competition, the Lotte Lenya Competition (Kurt Weill Foundation), Career Bridges, and others.{{Cite web|title=Student Brett Ruona|date=21 July 2014 |url=https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/a-love-of-opera-san-mateo-s-brett-ruona-has-sung-with-major-groups-across/article_7a051112-2b7b-5311-bb22-df67303cf376.html}}{{Cite web|title=Student Mary Dunleavy|url=https://www.marydunleavy.com/biography-1}}{{Cite web|title=Student - Megan Knapp|url=https://www.backstage.com/u/meganknapp/}}{{Cite web|title=Student - Gustavo Hernandez|url=https://www.exploretalent.com/resume/gustavohernandez/2704859}}{{Cite web|title=Student Kasia Borowiec|url=https://www.schmopera.com/scene/people/kasia-borowiec/}}{{Cite web|title=Student Bengi Mayone|url=https://spiral.lynn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=conservatory_guestrecitals}}{{Cite web|title=Student - Rachael Hirsch|date=27 September 2017 |url=https://issuu.com/rachaelhirsch/docs/rachaelhirsch2017__1_}}{{Cite web|title=Student - Robert Francis Orbach|url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cfa8c36843e6a0001d0468e/t/5f46710e4fa4ce46b4c265fe/1598451997025/Robert+Francis+Orbach-RESUME.pdf}}{{Cite web|title=Student - Diana Rose Becker|url=https://pdfslide.net/documents/diana-rose-becker-squarespace-rose-becker-aea-a-wonderful-life-mary-us-perf.html}}{{Cite web|title=Student - Korin Kormick|url=https://www.korinkormick.com/resume}}

Leading roles: http://archive.sfopera.com/qry3webcastlist.asp?psearch=Nikki%20Li%20Hartliep&Submit=GO

• Cio-cio-san, Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini{{Cite web|title=San Francisco Opera Performance Archives|url=http://archive.sfopera.com/qry3webcastlist.asp?psearch=Nikki%20Li%20Hartliep&Submit=GO}}
• Mimi, La bohème, Giacomo Puccini
• Suor Angelica, Suor Angelica, Giacomo Puccini{{Cite book|title=Canadian Opera Archives - Suor Angelica|isbn = 9781770700970|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xvSRhvGB6r8C&dq=suor+angelica%2C+hartliep&pg=PA282|last1 = Schabas|first1 = Ezra|last2 = Morey|first2 = Carl|date = September 2000| publisher=Dundurn }}{{Cite web|title=Canadian Opera Suor Angelica|date=29 March 1991 |url=https://buffalonews.com/news/tales-of-two-women/article_822f4ea2-a901-5902-b724-a2bc3b046563.html}}
• Tatyana, Eugene Onegin, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky{{Cite web|title=Chicago Lyric Opera Archives|url=https://www.lyricopera.org/shows/performance-library/1990-2000-seasons/}}
• Alice Ford, Falstaff, Giuseppe Verdi
• Amelia, Un ballo in maschera, Giuseppe Verdi{{Cite web|title=Reno Opera - Masked Ball Performance|date=March 1998 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/154468996/}}
• Ellen Orford, Peter Grimes, Benjamin Britten{{Cite news|title=Philadelphia Opera Review of Peter Grimes; NYT|website=The New York Times|date=2 December 1987 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/02/arts/the-opera-grimes-in-philadelphia.html|last1=Kimmelman |first1=Michael }}
• Rodelina, Rodelinda, George Frideric Handel
• Roselinda, Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss II{{Cite web|title=Die Fledermaus Performance|url=http://archive.sfopera.com/qry1operaview_l.asp?key=1598}}
• Countess, Le nozze di Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart{{Cite web|title=Student Performance dedicated to Calvin Simmons|url=http://archive.sfopera.com/qry7websponsorslist.asp?start=261}}
• Antonia, Les contes d'Hoffmann, Jacques Offenbach{{Cite web|title=SF Opera Stern Grove Performance|url=https://www.sterngrove.org/archives}}
• Micaela, Carmen, Georges Bizet

Note: While an Adler Fellow, Hartliep was the official cover for a number of singers, including Mirella Freni (La bohème), Pilar Lorengar (Don Carlos), and Margaret Price (Otello).{{Cite news|title=San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow Details: Terence McEwen|website=The New York Times|date=23 September 1998 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/23/arts/terence-mcewen-dies-at-69-directed-san-francisco-opera.html|last1=Tommasini |first1=Anthony }}

• Guest Artist, Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage (Honoring William Christie, Glyndebourne Opera), National Portrait Gallery Private Recital, London, 1997{{Cite web|title=Montblanc Detailed Listing|url=https://www.montblanc.cn/content/dam/mtb/assets/discover/arts-and-culture/images/25th%20Anniversary%20Montblanc%20Arts%20Patronage%20Book.pdf}}
• Grand Finalist Winner, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, 1987{{Cite news|last=Crutchfield|first=Will|date=1987-04-02|title=CONCERT: WINNERS OF MET AUDITIONS|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/02/arts/concert-winners-of-met-auditions.html|access-date=2021-07-16|issn=0362-4331}}
• Named by Musical America "Young Artists of 1987", Talent to Watch{{Cite web|title=Young Artists to Watch|url=https://docplayer.net/51904056-Central-opera-service-bulletin-volume-28-numbers-1-4-2.html}}
• Winner, Opera Index Award 1987{{Cite web|title=Opera Index Award Listing|url=https://www.operaindex.org/previous-winners}}
• Grant Award $25,000, The Olga Forrai Foundation, 1987[http://www.olgaforraifoundation.org/singers-conductors "Conductors & Singers"], Olga Forrai Foundation
• Named by Opera News, "Sixteen Young Singers on the Rise – Keep your Eye on...", July 1987
• Adler Fellowship, San Francisco Opera, 1983–1986[https://sfopera.com/about-us/opera-center/adler-fellowship-program/adler-alumni/ "Adler Fellowship Alumni – 1985"], San Francisco Opera
• The Schwabacher Award, 1st Prize, Merola Opera Program, San Francisco Opera, 1983[https://merola.org/program-alumni#1983 "Program Alumni – 1983"], Merola Opera Program{{Cite web|title=Schwabacher Recital Notice|url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/7500733/central-opera-service-bulletin-cultural-policy-and-the-arts-national-}}{{Cite web|title=Merola Listing|url=https://merola.org/program-alumni}}
• Winner of the Fred Pavlow Award, San Francisco Opera Center Auditions 1982{{Cite web|title=Fred Pavlow Award Details|url=https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/NEA-Annual-Report-1983.pdf}}

• Jenůfa, Gramophone Bis 1990, Carnegie Hall, Opera Orchestra of New York{{Cite web|title=Jenufa Recording Info|url=https://lyrics.moozic.org/lyrics/new-york-opera-orchestra-barbara-schramm-nikki-li-hartliep-wieslaw-ochman-peter-kazaras-ariel-r/jenufa-jw-i4-act-ii-scene-2-lyrics-twqssrtm.html}}{{Cite web|title=Jenufa performance program|url=https://www.chandos.net/chanimages/Booklets/BI0449.pdf}}{{Cite web|title=Jenufa Listing|url=https://parterre.com/unnatural-acts-of-opera/}}

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