Untitled - Nikki Einfeld

Opera Pe rfo rma nces
Compa ny
Co nd uct or / Dire cto r
Lucia: Lucia di Lammermoor
Adele: Die Fledermaus
Susanna: Le Nozze di Figaro
Barbarina: Le Nozze di Figaro
Cover: Susanna
Queen of the Night: Magic Flute
Papagena: Magic Flute
Elvira: L’Italiana in Algers (cover)
Mascha: Pique Dame
Adina: Elixir of Love
Rita: Rita
Serpina: La Serva Padrona
Rosina: Barber of Seville
Venus/Chief Gepopo: Le Grand Macabre (cover)
Jay/Hen: Cunning Little Vixen (cover)
Pauline: The Seagull
Zerlina: Don Giovanni
Mme.Gobineau: The Medium
cover Monica
Prem. Commere: Angelique
cover Angelique
Papagena: Die Zauberflote
Zerlina: Don Giovanni
Gretel: Hansel and Gretel
Gretel: Hansel und Gretel
Syracuse Opera
Manitoba Opera
New Orleans Opera
San Francisco Opera
Steven White/ James Marvel (2007)
Tyron Paterson/Ann Hodges (2006)
Robert Lyall/Laura Alley
Roy Goodman/John Copley
Canadian Opera Company
San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera
Manitoba Opera
San Francisco Opera Center
San Francisco Opera Center
Saskatoon Opera
San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera Center
Manitoba Opera
Merola Opera Program
Richard Bradshaw/Andrew Porter
Donald Runnicles/Diana Kienast
Donald Runnicles/Christopher Alexander
Donald Runnicles/ Roy Rallo
Tad Biernacki/ Ann Hodges
Mark Morash/ Christopher Alden
Mark Morash/ Christopher Alden
Tad Biernacki/ Barb Montlebetty
Michael Boder/ Kasper Holten
A. Polianichko/ Daniel Slater
Mark Morash/ Francine Landes
Tad Biernacki/Tom Diamond
Mark Morash/Peter Kazaras
Merola Opera Program
Mark Morash/Peter Kazaras
Manitoba Opera
NUOVA
NUOVA (in English:Canada Tour)
NUOVA (in German)
Biernacki/ Larry Desroches
Carol Castel
Carol Castel/Kim MaticeWanat
Carol Castel
Con cert R eperto ire
Con cert
Con du ctor
Stanford Orchestra
Basically British concert series
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
The Empyrean Ensemble
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Left Coast Chamber Orchestra
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Montreal Chamber Orchestra
University of Manitoba Wind Orchestra
Eckhardt Gramatee Recital Tour
Songs of Five Rivers/Naresh Sohal
Recital
New Music Festival
The Influence of Dallapiccola
Mozart on the Mountain
Sublime and Sensual
Commissioned premiere
CBC Radio
Guest soloist
Carmina Burana
Canada (15 City Tour)
Yo ung Art ists Programs & Co mpetit ions
Grand Finalist: Metropolitan Opera National
Council
First Place: Metropolitan Opera/ Pacific Regional
San Francisco Opera’s Adler Fellowship Program
Merola Opera Program
First Place: Eckhardt Gramatee Competition
NUOVA: Opera Intensive
Educat ion
University of Manitoba
Last updated November, 2006
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2000-2001
Bachelor of Music,
Vocal Performance
Jin Don Cai
John Parr (accompanist)
Andrey Boreyeko
Mario Ruffini
Rosemary Thompson
Michelle Mourre
Sean Varah (composer)
Raffi Armenian
Wanda Kaluzny
Micheal Hall
Shannon Hiebert (accompanist)
Lyric Coloratura soprano, Nikki Einfeld, has been widely recognized for her “remarkable display of stratospheric
pointillism” (The Globe and Mail) as well as “a bright, lithe tone, pinpoint accuracy and a saucy stage demeanor”
(San Francisco Chronicle). A former Adler Fellow with the San Francisco Opera, this Canadian soprano received recent
acclaim as a Grand Finalist in the 2006 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
As an Adler Fellow with the San Francisco Opera, Ms. Einfeld performed many roles including Mascha in
Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame, Papagena in The Magic Flute, Serpina in Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona, the title role in
Donizetti's Rita and Pauline in Thomas Pasatieri's The Seagull. As a participant in their Merola Opera Program she
performed in Menotti's The Medium and J. Ibert's Angelique. She returned this past summer season as Barbarina in Le
Nozze di Figaro.
In Canada recent appearances have included the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute with the Canadian Opera
Company and Adina in Manitoba Opera’s production of Elixir of Love. Additional operatic appearances include Rosina,
in The Barber of Seville (Saskatoon Opera), Zerlina in Don Giovanni (Manitoba Opera), and Gretel in Humperdinck’s
Hansel and Gretel, (on tour with NUOVA).
Her affinity for recital and concert repertoire, including many 20th and 21st century work Premieres, has lead to guest
appearances with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival, Basically British recital series, the Left Coast
Chamber Orchestra, Montreal Chamber Orchestra, the Empyrean Ensemble as well as many broadcast recordings on
CBC Radio Canada. Other appearances include Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Nevada Opera, Stanford Orchestra and
the San Francisco Opera Orchestra in concert.
Her competition credits include First prize in the internationally recognized Eckhardt-Gramatee National Music
Competition (2002), which further lead to a tour of Canada’s major music communities in recital with collaborating
pianist Shannon Hiebert. Ms. Einfeld was also a multiple prize-winner 32nd CBC Radio-Canada National
Competition for Young Performers (2003) and the First place winner of the Metropolitan Pacific Regional Auditions
(2005).
Miss Einfeld has just completed performances as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro with the New Orleans Opera.
Upcoming performances include Adele in Die Fledermaus with MOA and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with
Syracuse Opera.
Reviews
"...dazzling...", "Nikki Einfeld demonstrated high-flying virtuosity in an aria from Donizetti's
Linda di Chamounix."
— New York Times (Metropolitan Opera Grand Finals Concert), 2006
"...a remarkable display of stratospheric pointillism" (Queen of the Night ~ The Magic Flute,
Canadian Opera Company)
— The Globe and Mail, 2005
"...her power and security in stratospheric high notes are without comparison. She nailed
"A vos jeux, mes amis," from Thomas' Hamlet, in diction, accuracy, dramatic impact ...
every way. The Canadian soprano also has It, the charisma that passeth mere attentiongetting effort. When she sings, you listen, and root for her."
— San Francisco Classical Voice, 2005
"...with the landmark performance of Nikki Einfeld in the title role...blazing, rock-solid,
effortless bel canto - most impressive.” (Rita ~ Donizetti)
— San Francisco Classical Voice, 2005
"...light and lyrical with well turned phrases...she handled the brisk runs and difficult intervals
with impressive vocal agility." (Adina ~ Elixir of Love, Donizetti)
— Winnipeg Free Press, 2005
Nikki Einfeld – Reviews (continued)
“...Her strongest performance to date, at once precise and nuanced.” (Serpina ~ La Serva
Padrona, Pergolesi)
— San Francisco Chronicle, 2005
“…Her performance has major career stamped all over it…Einfeld raced around Strauss’ cruel
Zerbinetta aria, which she tossed off, seemingly without effort.”
— San Francisco Classical Voice, 2004
“Combining a bright lithe tone, pinpoint accuracy and a saucy stage demeanor, Einfeld
sashayed through the aria’s fearsome roulades (O Legere Hirondelle - Gounod). She faced the
ever-growing thicket of ornamentation without blinking, in a witty performance that seemed to
invite the audience to laugh at the difficulties with her.”
— San Francisco Chronicle, 2003
“She is impressively accurate in her sense of pitch and rhythm, and makes any text clear
throughout her range. She has an ability to focus the audience’s attention on the words she’s
singing, whatever their content might be, without dominating the proceedings. Einfeld also
controls a wide range of vibrato, dynamics, attacks and vocal colors, and seems able to choose
any point on these spectra at will.”
— San Francisco Classical Voice, 2004
“Pretty and petite, this lovely soprano was marvelous to watch and wonderful to hear. Her
second scene aria ,Una Voce Poco Fa, is a Barber of Seville highlight, and she sang it not just
flawlessly but gorgeously.” “Rosina” in The Barber of Seville.
— The Star Phoenix, 2004
“Soprano Nikki Einfeld tossed off Rossini’s coloratura Una voce poco fa with an accuracy and
musicality that made all the aria’s florid runs sound easy.”
— Jack Neals Music Reviews, Nevada Opera, 2004
Additional reviews are available at www.nikkieinfeld.com/reviews