Nina Adlon was born in Düsseldorf as Nina Berten. At the age of 14 she completed her studies (Jungstudium) for singing and piano at the Folkwanghochschule in Essen. Further studies of singing and performance art led her to the Tschaikowski-Conservatory in Moskau and the Robert-Schumann- Hochschule in Düsseldorf. Nina has won awards at the German National Competition (Bundeswettbewerb Gesang) in Berlin and Nürnberger Meistersinger, followed by further studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz where she graduated with a master’s degree in Singing, Performance Art and Education. Numerous opera engagements led Nina to the Oper Bonn, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Salzburger Landestheater, Salzburger Festspiele, Opera Monte Carlo, among others, as well as television and radio performances for SWR and 3sat.