Nikola Hillebrand

German soprano Nikola Hillebrand is praised for her bright, luminous voice with its noble timbre, her sophisticated technique and nuanced interpretation, and her heartfelt, charming delivery.

Still at the beginning of her career, she has already sung at some of the world's leading opera and concert halls such as the Bavarian State Opera, Opera House Zürich, Semperoper, the Salzburger Festival, the Glyndebourne Festival and the Vienna Musikverein. Nikola Hillebrand was a member of the Semperoper Dresden ensemble from 2020 to 2024. Hillebrand went on to perform roles such as Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Pamina (The Magic Flute), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Musetta (La bohème), Zdenka (Arabella), Ännchen (Der Freischütz), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) and Adele (Die Fledermaus). She sang the latter in Semperoper firstly in 2018 alongside Jonas Kaufmann as Eisenstein at the Semperoper's New Year's Eve concert. Other highlights of last season were Zdenka in Richard Strauss' Arabella at the Theater Bonn and concert performances of Johann Strauss's Fledermaus with the Orchestre National in Lyon. She also celebrated an outstanding debut at the Zurich Opera House with the role of Zdenka. Nikola Hillebrand made her debut at the Hamburg Opera House in December 2022 as Pamina in Mozart's Magic Flute and as Adele in Strauss' Fledermaus. In January 2024, Nikola Hillebrand will make her debut as Kunigunde in Bernstein's Candide at the Theater an der Wien and in summer 2024 she will be heard for the first time as Agathe in a new production of Weber's Freischütz at the Bregenz Festival.