Biography

Nikola Hillebrand

Current as of August 2023

The young German soprano Nikola Hillebrand has already performed at many internationally famous opera houses and concert halls, among them the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Cologne Philharmonie and the Hamburg Laeiszhalle. She has also appeared at Salzburg’s Mozartwoche and at the Salzburg Festival, at the Glyndebourne Festival and at the Musikfest Bremen. She has worked with conductors such as Adam Fischer, Fabien Gabel, Stefan Gottfried, Manfred Honeck, René Jacobs, Václav Luks, Raphaël Pichon, Andris Nelsons, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Jérémie Rhorer, Alexander Soddy, Robin Ticciati and Franz Welser-Möst.
Following her studies in Munich, Nikola Hillebrand became a member of the Mannheim National Theatre. Since autumn 2020 she is a member of the ensemble of the Semperoper Dresden, where she has appeared in roles such as Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Zdenka (Arabella), Musetta (La bohème), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) and Adele (Die Fledermaus). She has also sung Zdenka for Theater Bonn and at the Zurich Opera House, and Pamina and Adele at the Hamburg State Opera.
Future engagements will include her debut as Cunegonde in Bernstein’s Candide at the Theater an der Wien, as well as concerts with Concentus Musicus Wien under Stefan Gottfried, with the Tonkunstler Orchestra of Lower Austria under Jun Märkl, with the Orchestre National de France under Cristian Măcelaru and with Ensemble Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon.
Along with her operatic and concert activity Nikola Hillebrand is a passionate recitalist. In 2019 she won first prize in the ‘Das Lied’ Competition in Heidelberg. She has gone on to give recitals at the Heidelberg Spring Festival, the Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence, the Leeds Lieder Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, at London’s Wigmore Hall, and at the Essen Philharmonie, the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin and the Musikverein in Graz.

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