Japanese soprano Eri Nakamura first shot to prominence as a Royal Opera House Jette Parker Young Artist when she stepped in at short notice to replace Anna Netrebko as Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi. Since then she has made notable debuts in Europe, Asia and North and South America.

Highlights of her operatic career include: Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly with the Royal Swedish Opera, the New National Theatre, Tokyo, and Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Gilda in Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Salzburger Landestheater; Liù in Turandot at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opera de Oviedo and Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse; Magda in La rondine at Biwako Hall; Woglinde in Götterdämmerung with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and with the National Taichung Theater; Mimì in La bohème at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile; Clorinda in La Cenerentola at the Wiener Staatsoper; Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, and Hyogo Performing Arts Centre; Juliette in Roméo et Juliette at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile; and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with the Washington National Opera.

Nakamura is an alumna of the Osaka College of Music, the Opera Studio at the New National Theatre Tokyo, the Opera Studio Nederland and the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House. After graduating from the programme, she returned to Covent Garden to sing Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro under Sir Colin Davis and Sophie in Werther under Sir Antonio Pappano, which was recorded by Deutsche Grammophon. From 2010 to 2016, she was a member of the ensemble at the Bayerische Staatsoper.