Nina van Essen - Mezzo-Soprano

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La Scala Milano

18.5.2025

Mitridate, Re di Ponto - Arbate - Mozart

Musical direction - Christophe Rousset

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Mitridate - Sergey Romanovsky

Aspasia - Jessica Pratt

Sifare - Olga Bezsmertna

Farnace - Rose Naggar-Tremblay

Ismene - Maria Kokareva

Marzio - Alasdair Kent

Arbate - Nina van Essen

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Theatre des Champs-Elysées

25.5.2025

Arabate - Mitridate, Re di Ponto - Mozart

Musical Direction - Christophe Rousset
Les Talens Lyriques

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Mitridate - Sergey Romanovsky
Aspasia - Jessica Pratt
Sifare - Olga Bezsmertna
Farnace - Rose Naggar-Tremblay
Ismene - Maria Kokareva
Marzio - Alasdair Kent
Arbate - Nina van Essen

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Staatsoper Hannover

13.6.2025

Kitchenboy - Rusalka - Staatsoper Hannover

Rusalka - Kiandra Howarth
Prinz - Gerard Schneider
Wassermann - Shavleg Armasi
Fremde Fürstin - Katrin Wundsam
Ježibaba - Monika Walerowicz
Heger - Luvuyo Mbundu
Küchenjunge - Nina van Essen
Erste Elfe - Luisa Mordel
Zweite Elfe - Beatriz Miranda
Dritte Elfe - Freya Müller
Jäger - Lluís Calvet i Pey

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Staatsoper Hannover

15.6.2025

Kitchenboy - Rusalka - Staatsoper Hannover

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Staatsoper Hannover

19.6.2025

Kitchenboy - Rusalka - Staatsoper Hannover

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Staatsoper Hannover

22.6.2025

Kitchenboy - Rusalka - Staatsoper Hannover

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Staatsoper Hannover

24.6.2025

Kitchenboy - Rusalka - Staatsoper Hannover

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Staatsoper Hannover

27.6.2025

Kitchenboy - Rusalka - Staatsoper Hannover

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Nagano, Japan

17.8.2025

Hermia - A Midsummer night's dream - B.Britten - Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto festival

Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, Nagano

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Nagano, Japan

20.8.2025

Hermia - A Midsummer night's dream - B.Britten - Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto festival

Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, Nagano

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Nagano, Japan

24.8.2025

Hermia - A Midsummer night's dream - B.Britten - Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto festival

Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, Nagano

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Concertgebouw

27.9.2025

Bianca - Eine Florentinische Tragödie - Zemlinsky - NTR ZaterdagMatinee Concertgebouw

Radio Filharmonisch Orkest

Karina Canellakis dirigent

Attilio Glaser tenor (Guido Bardi)

Nina van Essen sopraan (Bianca)

Josef Wagner bariton (Simone)

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La Scala di Milano

5.11.2025

Dorabella - Cosi fan tutte

Musical Direction - Alexander Soddy

Regie - Robert Carsen

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Fiordiligi - Elsa Dreisig

Dorabella - Nina van Essen

Despina - Sandrine Piau

Guglielmo - Luca Micheletti

Ferrando - Giovanni Sala

Don Alfonso - Gerald Finley

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La Scala di Milano

8.11.2025

Dorabella - Cosi fan tutte

Musical Direction - Alexander Soddy

Regie - Robert Carsen

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Fiordiligi - Elsa Dreisig

Dorabella - Nina van Essen

Despina - Sandrine Piau

Guglielmo - Luca Micheletti

Ferrando - Giovanni Sala

Don Alfonso - Gerald Finley

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La Scala di Milano

12.11.2025

Dorabella - Cosi fan tutte

Musical Direction - Alexander Soddy

Regie - Robert Carsen

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Fiordiligi - Elsa Dreisig

Dorabella - Nina van Essen

Despina - Sandrine Piau

Guglielmo - Luca Micheletti

Ferrando - Giovanni Sala

Don Alfonso - Gerald Finley

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La Scala di Milano

15.11.2025

Dorabella - Cosi fan tutte

Musical Direction - Alexander Soddy

Regie - Robert Carsen

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Fiordiligi - Elsa Dreisig

Dorabella - Nina van Essen

Despina - Sandrine Piau

Guglielmo - Luca Micheletti

Ferrando - Giovanni Sala

Don Alfonso - Gerald Finley

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La Scala di Milano

18.11.2025

Dorabella - Cosi fan tutte

Musical Direction - Alexander Soddy

Regie - Robert Carsen

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Fiordiligi - Elsa Dreisig

Dorabella - Nina van Essen

Despina - Sandrine Piau

Guglielmo - Luca Micheletti

Ferrando - Giovanni Sala

Don Alfonso - Gerald Finley

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La Scala di Milano

21.11.2025

Dorabella - Cosi fan tutte

Musical Direction - Alexander Soddy

Regie - Robert Carsen

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Fiordiligi - Elsa Dreisig

Dorabella - Nina van Essen

Despina - Sandrine Piau

Guglielmo - Luca Micheletti

Ferrando - Giovanni Sala

Don Alfonso - Gerald Finley

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La Scala di Milano

23.11.2025

Dorabella - Cosi fan tutte

Musical Direction - Alexander Soddy

Regie - Robert Carsen

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Fiordiligi - Elsa Dreisig

Dorabella - Nina van Essen

Despina - Sandrine Piau

Guglielmo - Luca Micheletti

Ferrando - Giovanni Sala

Don Alfonso - Gerald Finley

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Concertgebouw Amsterdam

13.12.2025

Siebel - Faust - C. Gounod - NTR Zaterdag Matinee

Radio Filharmonisch Orkest
Groot Omroepkoor
Stéphane Denève

Pene Pati tenor (Faust)
Vannina Santoni sopraan (Marguérite)
Anthony Robin Schneider tenor (Méphistophélès)
Florian Sempey bariton (Valentin)
Nina van Essen mezzosopraan (Siebel)
Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo mezzosopraan (Marthe)
Michael Wilmering bariton (Wagner)

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Philharmonie Haarlem

29.3.2026

Matthäus Passion - Alto

Conductor - Boudewijn Jansen
Concertgebouw chamber orchestra

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Concertgebouw Amsterdam

3.4.2026

Matthäus Passion - Alto

Conductor - Boudewijn Jansen
Concertgebouw chamber orchestra

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Tiroler Festspiele Erl

18.7.2026

We are the lucky ones - Three - Philip Venables

One: Claron McFadden
‍Three: Nina van Essen
‍Four: Helena Rasker
‍Six: Frederick Ballentine
‍Seven: Germán Olvera
‍Eight: Alex Rosen
‍Orchester der Tiroler Festspiele Erl

Musikalische Leitung: Bassem Akiki

‍Regie und Bühnenbild: Ted Huffman

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Tiroler Festspiele Erl

24.7.2026

We are the lucky ones - Three - Philip Venables

Musikalische Leitung: Bassem Akiki

‍Regie und Bühnenbild: Ted Huffman

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Narodowe Forum Muzyki, Wroclaw, Poland

13.4.2025

Alto - Johannes Passion - J.S.Bach

Marc Minkowski – conductor

‍‍Wrocław Baroque Orchestra‍

‍Jarosław Thiel – artistic direction of Wrocław Baroque Orchestra

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Nationale Opera & Ballet

30.3.2025

We are the lucky ones - Three - Philip Venables

Composition - Philip Venables
Libretto - Nina Segal and Ted Huffman

Musical direction - Bassem Akiki
Regie and set design - Ted Huffman

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One - Claron McFadden
Two - Jacquelyn Stucker
Three - Nina van Essen
Four - Helena Rasker
Five - Miles Mykkanen
Six - Frederick Ballentine
Seven - Germán Olvera
Eight - Alex Rosen

Residentie Orkest

Co-production with Ruhrtriennal

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Nationale Opera & Ballet

26.3.2025

We are the lucky ones - Three - Philip Venables

Composition - Philip Venables
Libretto - Nina Segal and Ted Huffman

Musical direction - Bassem Akiki
Regie and set design - Ted Huffman

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One - Claron McFadden
Two - Jacquelyn Stucker
Three - Nina van Essen
Four - Helena Rasker
Five - Miles Mykkanen
Six - Frederick Ballentine
Seven - Germán Olvera
Eight - Alex Rosen

Residentie Orkest

Co-production with Ruhrtriennal

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Nationale Opera & Ballet

22.3.2025

We are the lucky ones - Three - Philip Venables

Composition - Philip Venables
Libretto - Nina Segal and Ted Huffman

Musical direction - Bassem Akiki
Regie and set design - Ted Huffman

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One - Claron McFadden
Two - Jacquelyn Stucker
Three - Nina van Essen
Four - Helena Rasker
Five - Miles Mykkanen
Six - Frederick Ballentine
Seven - Germán Olvera
Eight - Alex Rosen

Residentie Orkest

Co-production with Ruhrtriennal

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Nationale Opera & Ballet

19.3.2025

We are the lucky ones - Three - Philip Venables

Composition - Philip Venables
Libretto - Nina Segal and Ted Huffman

Musical direction - Bassem Akiki
Regie and set design - Ted Huffman

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One - Claron McFadden
Two - Jacquelyn Stucker
Three - Nina van Essen
Four - Helena Rasker
Five - Miles Mykkanen
Six - Frederick Ballentine
Seven - Germán Olvera
Eight - Alex Rosen

Residentie Orkest

Co-production with Ruhrtriennal

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Nationale Opera & Ballet

16.3.2025

We are the lucky ones - Three - Philip Venables

Composition - Philip Venables
Libretto - Nina Segal and Ted Huffman

Musical direction - Bassem Akiki
Regie and set design - Ted Huffman

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One - Claron McFadden
Two - Jacquelyn Stucker
Three - Nina van Essen
Four - Helena Rasker
Five - Miles Mykkanen
Six - Frederick Ballentine
Seven - Germán Olvera
Eight - Alex Rosen

Residentie Orkest

Co-production with Ruhrtriennal

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Nationale Opera & Ballet

14.3.2025

We are the lucky ones - Three - Philip Venables

Composition - Philip Venables
Libretto - Nina Segal and Ted Huffman

Musical direction - Bassem Akiki
Regie and set design - Ted Huffman

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One - Claron McFadden
Two - Jacquelyn Stucker
Three - Nina van Essen
Four - Helena Rasker
Five - Miles Mykkanen
Six - Frederick Ballentine
Seven - Germán Olvera
Eight - Alex Rosen

Residentie Orkest

Co-production with Ruhrtriennal

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Theater Magdeburg

18.1.2025

Mercedes - Carmen - Theater Magdeburg

Carmen - Héloïse Mas/Weronika Rabek

‍Micaëla - Amy Ní Fhearraigh

Mercédès - Emilie Renard/Julia Deit Ferrand/Nina van Essen

Frasquita - Elvire Beekhuizen/Rosha Fitzhowle

‍Don José - Aleksandr Nesterenko

Escamillo - Giorgi Mtchedlishvili

Dancaïro - Marko Pantelić

Remendado - Adrian Domarecki

Moralès - Doğukan Kuran

Zuniga - Johannes Stermann

Tänzerinnen Valeria Busdraghi, Claudia Greco, Bronwyn Jolley, Amanda Mitrevski

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Theater an der Wien

16.12.2024

Liv - Der Herzlose Riese - Elena Kats-Chernin

Conductor - Gábor Káli

Regie - Catharina von Bülow

Lena Dahl - Carina Schmieger

König Henrik der Hilflose - Zoltan Nagy

Liv - Nina van Essen

Dappert Dapp - Wilhelm Schwinghammer

Hanno - Alexander Kaimbacher

Der Erzähler - Angelo Konzett

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Theater an der Wien

16.12.2024

Liv - Der Herzlose Riese - Elena Kats-Chernin

Conductor - Gábor Káli

Regie - Catharina von Bülow

Lena Dahl - Carina Schmieger

König Henrik der Hilflose - Zoltan Nagy

Liv - Nina van Essen

Dappert Dapp - Wilhelm Schwinghammer

Hanno - Alexander Kaimbacher

Der Erzähler - Angelo Konzett

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Theater an der Wien

15.12.2024

Liv - Der Herzlose Riese - Elena Kats-Chernin

Conductor - Gábor Káli

Regie - Catharina von Bülow

Lena Dahl - Carina Schmieger

König Henrik der Hilflose - Zoltan Nagy

Liv - Nina van Essen

Dappert Dapp - Wilhelm Schwinghammer

Hanno - Alexander Kaimbacher

Der Erzähler - Angelo Konzett

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Theater an der Wien

15.12.2024

Liv - Der Herzlose Riese - Elena Kats-Chernin

Conductor - Gábor Káli

Regie - Catharina von Bülow

Lena Dahl - Carina Schmieger

König Henrik der Hilflose - Zoltan Nagy

Liv - Nina van Essen

Dappert Dapp - Wilhelm Schwinghammer

Hanno - Alexander Kaimbacher

Der Erzähler - Angelo Konzett

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Royal Danish Opera Kopenhagen