Macedonian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska delighted Leeds Lieder audiences in 2021, she returns to perform – with Joseph Middleton – the newly-commissioned song cycle by Tansy Davies.
The rest of their programme centres around the songs of Schubert, Debussy and the remarkable Margaret Bonds, a composer enjoying a well-deserved renaissance.
Since being at Leeds Lieder, Ema has given her Carnegie Hall and Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin debuts as well as creating the main role in George Benjamin’s Picture a day like this at Covent Garden’s Linbury Theatre. In 2022 she became a recipient of the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. It’s a thrill to witness the stratospheric rise of this outstanding artist and we’re so pleased to welcome her back to Yorkshire!
“The future of this privileged voice seems to have no limits.”
– ÓPERA ACTUAL
Part of Leeds Lieder Festival 2024.
Unwaged/Disabled
£23
Under 30s/Students
Free
Start time
7.30pm
Priority booking for Friends of Leeds Lieder from Monday 8 January by phone, call 0113 222 3434
Tickets on sale now
Festival passes are available to purchase over the phone by calling 0113 222 3434, by online booking form or printed booking.
Evening Recital Pass £100 / £90 (unwaged/disabled)
Lunchtime and Lecture Recitals Pass £45 / £39 (unwaged/disabled)
Young Artists Pass £95 / £83 (unwaged/disabled)
Franz Schubert ‘Im Frühling’
‘Dass sie hier gewesen’
‘Herbst’
‘Der Unglückliche’
Tansy Davies Thunder: Perfect Mind (A Leeds Lieder commission – world première)
Margaret Bonds Songs of the Seasons
‘Poème d’Automne’
‘Winter Moon’
‘Young Love in Spring’
‘Summer Storm’
INTERVAL
Claude Debussy Ariettes Oubliées
‘C’est l’extase langoureuse’
‘Il pleure dans mon cœur’
‘L’ombre des arbres’
‘Chevaux de bois’
‘Green’
‘Spleen’
Nikolai Medtner ‘Twilight’
‘Sleeplessness’
Nicolas Slonimsky Five Advertising Songs
‘Utica Sheets and Pillowcases’
‘Pillsbury Bran Muffins’
‘Vauv Nose Powder’
‘Children Cry for Castoria’
‘Make This a Day of Pepsodent’
