EmaNikolovska

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Mezzo-Soprano
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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 last season she made her role debut as Octavian Der Rosenkavalier. In the 2023/24 season she makes her debut at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Theatre singing the lead role in George Benjamin's Picture a Day Like This, and her house and role debut as the Fox in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen at the Canadian Opera Company.

In concert she will sing Scriabin's Symphony No.1 with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Fabio Luisi, Mozart's C Minor Mass (sop 2) with Raphael Pichon in Munich, Vivier's Wo Bist du Licht with Barbara Hannigan in Paris, Stravinsky's Les Noces with Kent Nagano in Montréal, and tours Mendelssohn's Elias with Pygmalion and Raphael Pichon.

Already a celebrated recitalist, her many appearances include a debut recital tour in the U.S. and Canada, including Carnegie Hall, and four recitals at Wigmore Hall, with Kunal Lahiry, Sean Shibe, Graham Johnson and Sir András Schiff.

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 2023 - Oct 2023
Royal Opera House, London
Benjamin Picture a Day Like This (Woman) Corinna Niemeyer (conductor)
Oct 2023 - Oct 2023
Maison de la Musique et de la Radio, Paris
Vivier Wo bist du Licht! Barbara Hannigan (conductor) Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Nov 2023 - Nov 2023
Koncerthuset, Copenhagen
Scriabin Symphony No. 1 Fabio Luisi (conductor) Danish National Symphony Orchestra

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.