Nicole Steinberg was appointed Director of Operations and Media in August 2018. Nicole brings with her a deep passion and commitment to the mission of Opera Baltimore as well as a background in arts management and performance, and a certificate in Nonprofit Finance.

In addition to her work at Opera Baltimore, Nicole is a Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology at the University of Maryland College Park. Her current research examines Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s 1968 Holocaust opera The Passenger within through the trauma studies frameworks of moral responsibility and witness bearing. Nicole has taught an opera Holocaust commemoration course for Opera Baltimore, and has published a Holocaust awareness lesson plan with the Jewish Museum of Maryland. Nicole has presented at meetings of the Capital Chapter of the American Musicological Society and the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

Nicole also holds a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Towson University and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Miami.