EmaNikolovska

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Mezzo-Soprano
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Megan Steller

Megan Steller

Associate Artist Manager
Ivo Ivanov

Ivo Ivanov

Assistant Artist Manager

Representation

General management with Askonas Holt Partner Managers: Johanna Herbst Artist Management (concerts in Germany & Austria) Étude Arts (United States, Canada, Central & South America)

About Ema

Macedonian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska completed her Master's in Voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she also completed the Opera Course. She was a BBC New Generation Artist from 2019-2022 and in 2022 she became a recipient of the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award.

She is an Alumna of the International Opera Studio at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin where in 2023 she made her role debut as Octavian Der Rosenkavalier. She returns in the 2024/25 season for Stefano in Romeo et Juliette. In the 2023/24 season she made her house and role debut as the Fox in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen at the Canadian Opera Company and her debut at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Theatre singing the lead role in George Benjamin's Picture a Day Like This, a role she will revive this season at the Opera du Rhin, Strasbourg.

In concert she will make her debut in Japan singing Mozart arias with the NHK Symphony and Petr Popelka. Other concerts this season include Debussy's La Damoiselle Elue with George Benjamin and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Mozart's Davide Penitente at the Vicenza Festival conducted by Andras Schiff.

Already a celebrated recitalist, in the 2023/24 season her partners included Martha Argerich, Sir András Schiff , Charles Richard-Hamelin and Sean Shibe. She made her debut recital tour in the U.S. and Canada, including Carnegie Hall, and was a Featured Artist at Wigmore Hall. Her 2024/25 recitals include Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Luxembourg, Amsterdam and a return to Wigmore Hall.

Ema is based in Berlin

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Representation

General management with Askonas Holt Partner Managers: Johanna Herbst Artist Management (concerts in Germany & Austria) Étude Arts (United States, Canada, Central & South America)

Season Highlights

Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
Opera du Rhin, Strasbourg
Benjamin Picture a Day Like This (Woman) Alphonse Cemin (conductor)
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
Gounod 'Romeo et Juliette' (Stephano) Stefano Montanari (conductor)
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Wigmore Hall, London
programme to include Rainier, Copland, Schubert, Prokofiev, Messiaen, Crumb Kunal Lahiry - piano

Selected Repertoire

BenjaminPicture a Day Like This (Woman)
BerliozLa damnation de Faust (Marguerite)*
Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande (Mélisande)*
GounodFaust (Siebel)*   •   Roméo et Juliette (Stefano)*
HandelSemele (Juno)*   •   Alcina (Ruggiero/Bradamante)*   •   Ariodante*
HenzeCubana (Lucile)
HumperdinckHänsel und Gretel (Hänsel)
JanáčekThe Cunning Little Vixen (Fox)
MassenetWerther (Charlotte)*
MozartCosì fan tutte (Dorabella)*   •   Idomeneo (Idamante)*   •   Le Nozze di Figaro (Cherubino)*   •   La Clemenza di Tito (Sesto)*
PurcellDido and Aeneas (Dido)*
RameauHippolyte et Aricie (Hippolyte)
RavelLe Heure Espagnolle (Concepción)*
Strauss Der Rosenkavalier (Octavian)   •   Ariadne auf Naxos (Komponist)*
Tchaikovsky Pique Dame (Polina)*
VerdiRigoletto (Giovanna)
VivaldiOrlando*
Weber Oberon (Fatima)*

News

Press

  • Ema Nikolovska in recital with Sir Andras Schiff

    Wigmore Hall
    Jun 2024
    • An artistic event of top quality to cherish ... Nikolovska performed all songs from memory, all in original language. She clearly fully understood and thus presented all emotions within the text/music with dramatic flair but, at the same time, with disciplined style of the period. There were some appropriate operatic gestures while dynamics as well as tone colours were plentiful and delivered with care ... Nikolovska is a great communicator within the performance but also off-performance. She talked to the audience from the stage with ease, flair, and plenty of humour.