EmaNikolovska

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Mezzo-Soprano
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  • 22 September 2023

    Ema Nikolovska debuts at the Royal Opera House in George Benjamin premiere conducted by Corinna Niemeyer

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  • 18 April 2023

    Ema Nikolovska debuts as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier

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  • 17 March 2022

    Ema Nikolovska named recipient of Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award

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  • 03 November 2021

    Askonas Holt signs mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska

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Press

  • Janáček - The Cunnning Little Vixen (The Fox)

    Canadian Opera Company
    Jan 2024 - Feb 2024

    • When she falls for Fox, her spirited soprano combines with Nikolovska’s spacious mezzo to spin a cocoon of love that’s in a totally different world from that of the brutish humans.

    • Soprano Ema Nikolovska was a bright voiced, endearing Fox.

    • Ema Nikolovska, who rounds out the main company, is particularly wonderful as the Fox with whom Sharp Ears falls in love. Their perfectly delivered second-act love duet is among the highlights of the evening.

    • Ema Nikolovska is another standout as the Fox, with whom the Vixen falls madly in love. In what is technically a trouser role (a funny thought when foxes are concerned), Nikolovska shines with a clear, powerful mezzo that soars high with ease. This is a COC debut for her, and a total treat to hear.

    • Fox, a trousers-role sung with vitality and emotion by Ema Nikolovska. Nikolovska’s bright mezzo-soprano blends well with Archibald’s high soprano…. Archibald and Nikolovska display their fine acting skills

  • Benjamin - Picture a Day Like This (Woman)

    Linbury Theatre
    Sep 2023

    • As the Woman, mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska is both vulnerable and stoical, responding to this rollercoaster day with a voice of many colours.

    • Ema Nikolovska gave an outstanding performance as Woman, caressing Benjamin’s sinuous writing with an unbearable tenderness.

    • Ema Nikolovska sings with poise and impact throughout. Simply dressed in a frock and trench-coat, she is urgent but never over-emotional, only rising to fury in a central aria in which she expresses her disillusionment that her quest is futile and condemned to fail. Instead, she uses nuanced vocal colours and beautiful phrasing to delineate her changing moods.

  • Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier (Octavian)

    Berlin Staatsoper
    Apr 2023

    • Stichwrot Octavian: Wie ein furchtloser Ritter beherrscht Ema Nikolovska jugendlicher Graf den Abend fast schon im Alleingang. Mit seinen siebzehn Jaren ist er her rim Haus, und die Sangerin Herrscherin der Buhne. Keyword Octavian: Like a fearless knight, Ema Nikolovska, the youthful count, almost single-handedly dominates the evening. At seventeen he is the master of the house, and the singer ruler of the stage.

    • Y que bien estuvo Ema Nikolovska como el joven adolescente lleno de si mismo y lleno de vigor sexual. La voz corrio clara y audible por el escenario del Staatsoper Unter den Linden, sabiendo como indicar cambios de humor y en lod duetos con Sophie supo como manejar el registro agudo sin problemas. And how well was Ema Nikolovska as the young adolescent full of himself and full of sexual vigour. The voice ran clear and audible across the stage of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, knowing how to indicate mood swings and in duets with Sophie he knew how to handle the high register with ease.

  • Rameau - Hippolyte et Aricie

    Philharmonie de Paris
    Nov 2021

    • Ema Nikolovska une Diane au riche médium qui détaille superbement la noble complexité de son personnage. Ema Nikolovska a Diana with a rich medium who superbly details the noble complexity of her character.

    • La Diane de Ema Nikolovska a toute l’assurance et l’aisance d’une déesse, ainsi que la surface vocale. Ema Nikolovska’s Diana has all the confidence and ease of a goddess, as well as the vocal surface.

    • Ema Nikolovska prête sa voix intense et vibrante au personnage de Diane. Personnage réconfortant, elle déclame le texte au plus près des intentions théâtrales et ses vocalises agiles s’envolent joyeusement pour annoncer la bonne nouvelle qu’Hippolyte n’est pas mort. Ema Nikolovska lends her intense and vibrant voice to the character of Diane. A comforting character, she declaims the text as closely as possible to the theatrical intentions and her agile vocalisations joyfully take flight to announce the good news that Hippolyte is not dead.

    • ma Nikolovska déploie dans le rôle de Diane son soprano lumineux et homogène. Elle est également une des seules ce soir à faire preuve d’une prononciation à l’intelligibilité appréciable. Ema Nikolovska displays her luminous and homogeneous soprano in the role of Diana. She is also one of the few tonight to demonstrate an appreciably intelligible pronunciation.

  • Ema Nikolovska & Malcolm Martineau BBC Proms

    Cadogan Hall
    Sep 2021

    • Nikolovska is the possessor of a beautiful, versatile and technically assured instrument with gorgeous colours to it ... She has a winning and communicative persona ... Nikolovska gave a contained yet dramatic reading that made one eager to see her on the dramatic stage.

  • Leeds Lieder Gala

    Wigmore Hall
    Jun 2019

    • ...her exceptional communication and dramatic skill...was a tour de force of quite terrifying skill.