The German soprano Nikola Hillebrand is praised by the press for her bright, luminous voice, her noble timbre, sophisticated technique and her interpretation and heartfelt performances.

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Still at the beginning of her career, she has already sung at the world's leading opera and concert halls such as the Bavarian State Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival and the Vienna Musikverein. Nikola was a member of the Semperoper Dresden from  2020 -2024, performing roles such as Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Musetta (La Bohème), Zdenka (Arabella), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Ännchen (Der Freischütz), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) and Adele (Die Fledermaus). She sang the latter 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' Die Fledermaus with the Orchestre National in Lyon. She also celebrated an outstanding debut at the Opernhaus Zürich with the role of Zdenka. Nikola made her debut at the Staatsoper Hamburg in December 2022 as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and as Adele in Strauss' Die Fledermaus. In January 2024, she made her debut as Kunigunde in Bernstein's Candide at the Theater an der Wien and in summer went on to perform her first Agathe in a new production of Weber's Freischütz at the Bregenz Festival.