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Freude! Music Director Gustavo Gimeno brings the season to its close with Beethoven’s triumphant Ninth Symphony. Joined by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and a stellar cast of soloists, this Masterworks finale delivers the ultimate “Ode to Joy,” bringing us all together in jubilant celebration.

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Beethoven’s Ninth

David Pecaut Square

Imagine being immortal and witnessing four centuries of history firsthand—first as a man, then as a woman...

Or­lan­do

Schiller Theater

For Figaro and Susanna, it was supposed to be the most beautiful day of their lives: their wedding day. But their employer, Count Almaviva, who is equally in love with Susanna, does everything he can to delay the wedding. Twenty-four turbulent hours begin, in which the power of Eros throws every character in the play into confusing emotional states. Director Jan Philipp Gloger sets Mozart’s masterpiece in the present day, highlighting the way a supposedly irresistible man gets ensnared in a complex code of conduct designed to prevent abuse of power and sexual assault.

The Marriage of Figaro

Zurich Opera House

Jacques Offenbach composed more than 100 operas and operettas, most of them with unique wit and biting satire, original and inspired. At the end of his illustrious career in Paris, which stretched over five decades, he turned to his most ambitious operatic work Les Contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), an opéra fantastique based on a play that premiered in 1881.

Les Contes d’Hoffmann

Bebelplatz

Pierre Boulez catapulted himself to the forefront of music pioneers in 1955 with his chamber cantata »Le marteau sans maître« (The Hammer Without a Master). Top young talents such as Ema Nikolovska and Sean Shibe, both Elbphilharmonie FAST LANE artists, juxtapose the Boulez with works by the next generation and the generation after that as part of the Hamburg International Music Festival with the motto »Future«: »12 Caprices« by James Dillon and »Bel Canto« by Cassandra Miller, which is dedicated to the opera diva Maria Callas.

Boulez and the Young Generation

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Tippet Rise is delighted to welcome Canadian-Macedonian mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska and Indian-American pianist Kunal Lahiry to the art center for their debut. Both BBC New Generation Artists, they will perform a program titled Devotions, inspired by love and nature, with songs by Priaulx Rainier, Aaron Copland, Schubert, Prokofiev, Emily Doolittle, Oliver Messian, and George Crumb, in addition to the US premiere of Korean-American composer, pianist, and YouTuber Nahre Sol’s Apperceptive Algorithms.

Ema Nikolovska, mezzo-soprano, Kunal Lahiry, piano

Tippet Rise Art Center

Macedonian-Canadian mezzo-soprano, Ema Nikolovska makes her American recital debut with the Series in 2024. Already a mainstay on world opera stages, this will be the first time American audiences get to hear this once-in-a-generation voice in recital.

Nikolovska was the winner of the 2022 BBT Award, and has been a BBC New Generation Artist (2019-2022). In 2019 she won first prize at the International Vocal Competition in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize (Kathleen Ferrier Awards), and was a prize-winner at the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International Auditions.

Ema Nikolovska, Mezzo-soprano: American Recital Debut

Folly Theater

Singer, composer and arranger Héloïse Werner deserves to be known as a force of nature, such is her power to transform and reimagine music from the past and bring it into harmonious relationship with the music of today. Her latest programme reaches back to O rosa bella, a gem from the mid-1400s attributed to John Dunstaple, and music by the 15th-century Franco-Flemish composer Josquin des Prez, and forward to the French soprano’s own work for voices and cellos.

Héloïse Werner soprano; Ema Nikolovska mezzo-soprano; Adèle Charvet mezzo-soprano; Karim Sulayman tenor; James Newby baritone; Early Chorus Cello Ensemble

Wigmore Hall

From supernatural imagery and unsettling feelings of desire to the hope in darkness of Blondel zu Marien and the deathbed scene of Abschied von der Erde, Ema Nikolovska’s recital probes a nocturnal world of shadows and complex emotions. The mezzo-soprano, an alumna of Deutsche Oper Berlin’s renowned Opera Studio, is joined by Jonathan Biss, ‘a natural musical poet’, according to Gramophone.

Ema Nikolovska mezzo-soprano; Jonathan Biss piano

Two of the most imaginative and exploratory artists of their generation craft a genre-defying program that intersperses passages from Virginia Woolf’s Orlando with songs by Schubert, Bob Dylan, Laurie Anderson, and others.

Mezzo-soprano

Ema Nikolovska

Events

Upcoming events

Jul 17, 2026

Héloïse Werner soprano; Ema Nikolovska mezzo-soprano; Adèle Charvet mezzo-soprano; Karim Sulayman tenor; James Newby baritone; Early Chorus Cello Ensemble · Wigmore Hall

Sep 17, 2026

Ema Nikolovska mezzo-soprano; Jonathan Biss piano · Wigmore Hall

Oct 29, 2026

Orlando: Ema Nikolovska, mezzo-soprano, with Sean Shibe, guitar · The Royal Conservatory of Music

Past events

11 - 14 Jun, 2026

Beethoven’s Ninth · Toronto Symphony Orchestra

May 16 - Jun 6, 2026

Or­lan­do · Komische Oper Berlin

Future and recently performed repertoire

Singer in An den Mond by Schubert

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Ecco mormorar l'onde by Monteverdi

Wigmore Hall

La muse, Nicklausse in Les Contes d’Hoffmann by Offenbach

Staatsoper Berlin

Orlando in Or­lan­do by Neuwirth

Komische Oper Berlin

Cherub in The Marriage of Figaro by Mozar

Opernhaus Zürich

Singer in Sonic Meditations by Oliveros

Wigmore Hall

Singer in slow two by Agar

Wigmore Hall

Singer in D'ung aultre amer by Ockeghem

Wigmore Hall

Singer in A che tormi il ben mio by Monteverdi

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Come woeful Orpheus by Byrd

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Non mi è grave il morire by Monteverdi

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Entré je suis en grant pensée by Prez

Wigmore Hall

Singer in O rosa bella by Dunstaple

Wigmore Hall

Singer in En l’ombre d’un buissonnet by Prez

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Amor, per tua mercè vatten’a quella by Monteverdi

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Puisque m’amour by Dunstaple

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Intro by Alexander

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Light, persists by Werner

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Lied aus der Ferne by Schubert

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Erntelied by Schubert

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Der Sänger am Felsen by Schubert

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Abends unter der Linde by Schubert

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Die Sommernacht by Schubert

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Erinnerung by Schubert

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Klage by Schubert

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Leichenfantasie by Schubert

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Sehnsucht by Schubert

Wigmore Hall

Singer in An die Laute by Schubert

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Der Morgenkuss by Schubert

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Blondel zu Marien by Schubert

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Der Flüchtling by Schubert

Wigmore Hall

Singer in Das Weinen by Schubert

Wigmore Hall

Orlando · Komische Oper Berlin

Orlando in Orlando by Neuwirth