directing highlights include:
New York City Opera — The Abduction From the Seraglio
Florida Grand Opera — Le Nozze Di Figaro, L’heure Espagnol, La Boheme, La Rondine 
Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos Lisbon, New Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, Opera Zuid, The Netherlands — The Love for Three Oranges
Portland Opera — The Love for Three Oranges, The Mikado
Eugene Opera — Madame Butterfly, La Boheme, Le nozze di Figaro, Carmen
Virginia Opera — HMS Pinafore,
Dayton Opera — Il Trovatore
Madrid Mozart Festival — Le nozze di Figaro (Co Director)
San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program — Il Matrimonio Segreto, L’elisir d’amore
Mc Gill Opera, Montreal — Il Capuleti e I Montecchi, Le nozze di Figaro
University of Southern California — The Dialogues of the Carmelites
Cal State Long Beach — Die Fledermaus, La Fille du Regiment, Cosi fan Tutte
Lawrence Opera Conservatory, Appleton WI — Albert Herring
The Royal College of Music — Opera Scenes
Chapman University — Kurt Weill Revue
Chapman University —Die Fledermaus, Act II
Yale University — L’elisir d’amore

Nicola was Head of Movement and Dance at English National Opera (1983 – 2001) where she choreographed over 40 productions including: Die Fledermaus, Eugene Onegin, The Pearl Fishers, The Damnation of Faust, The Flying Dutchman, Khovanschina, Princess Ida, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Die Soldaten, and Wozzeck

In addition she has choreographed:
Scottish Opera -- Salome, Rigoletto, 
Glimmerglass Opera -- The Abduction from the Seraglio, Le nozze di Figaro, Salome, Imeneo , Orpheus & Eurydice
Bonn Oper, Dresden Oper, Bavarian Oper, Munich, Boston Lyric Opera -- Salome,  
Glyndebourne Festival Opera , Geneva Opera, Graz Oper,
The National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing -- Die Fledermaus
Korean National Opera -- Die Fledermaus, Der Fliegende Holländer
Seattle Opera -- Rigoletto, Die Fledermaus
San Diego Opera -- Salome, Don Quichotte, Tannhauser, 
Santa Fe Opera -- Faust, Carmen, Rigoletto, Romeo & Juliette, Don Giovanni, Madame Butterfly
Arizona Opera -- Aida
Handel Festival -- Halle -Ariodante
Washington National Opera --Vanessa
The Dallas Opera -- Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux, Anna Bolena, Boris Godunov
Los Angeles Opera -- Fidelio, Falstaff, Madame Butterfly
Portland Opera — Street Scene
The Lyric Opera of Chicago -- Street Scene
McGill Opera , Montreal — A Midsummer Night’s Dream
UCLA — Cosi fan Tutte (Period etiquette coach)
UCLA — Mansfield Park, Juana
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona – Roméo et Juliette
Chautauqua Opera — The Ghosts of Versailles
santa fe desert chorale — The Path of Miracles (movement director)
university of north texas — Don Giovanni
Opera Santa Barbara — Semele
Music Academy of the West – Eugene Onegin

Her work for Opera Conservatory/Young Artists programs include:
The Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Program
San Francisco Opera, Merola and Adler programs
Los Angeles Opera
Glimmerglass Opera
Florida Grand Opera
Santa Fe Opera
Arizona Opera
Cincinnati Opera
UCLA
Songfest, Los Angeles
McGill Opera Conservatory, Montreal
Atelier Lyrique, Opera de Montreal
The Royal College of Music, London
university of north texas
Portland Opera
Minnesota Opera
Yale University
Opera Santa Barbara
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Trinity Laban College, London

master classes:
"Dance, Dress, and Decorum, 1550 - 1910" —
A period etiquette series of seven classes intentioned to inform the singer about the historical background and social expectations of a period or place in which the opera is set. To look at the origin of the costume, what it represented, how it was constructed and how it governed the physical etiquette of the day. The singers wear costumes of the period in the second half of the class and are taught the correct etiquette/manners and a social dance of the day which they may have to perform, should they be cast in an opera of the relevant period.  

Audition Preparation
Stage Movement
Physical preparation
How to take the perfect Curtain Call

English diction coaching:
Los Angeles Opera —The Turn of the Screw, Albert Herring, The Rape of Lucretia, Billy Budd
UCLA – Mansfield Park

BBC TV:
A History of the Waltz (aired as an interval feature during the broadcast of Die Fledermaus from Glyndebourne Festival Opera which she choreographed)