Nikki Treurniet - soprano<br/> — Svanholm Artists Management

Biography

Dutch light lyric soprano Nikki Treurniet is based in the Netherlands.

Future engagements include roles with Bregenzer Festspiele and with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, as well as concerts with Residentie Orkest, and Nord Nederlands Orkest. Recent contracts include Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel for Staatsoper Hannover and Schoolteacher in Ellen Reid’s The Shell Trial for Dutch National Opera.

She was a soloist for Hannover Staatsoper from 2019-23, where she extended her operatic repertoire to include roles such as Pamina Die Zauberflöte, Zerlina Don Giovanni, Despina Cosi fan Tutte, Gretel Hänsel und Gretel, Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro, and Blanche Dialogues des Carmélites. During the pandemic Nikki sang the role of Iseut la Blonde in a production of Frank Martin’s Le vin herbé, directed by Wolfgang Nägele, and received high praise portraying the role of Emmy Perth in Marschner’s Der Vampyr, directed by Ersan Mondtag.

As a light lyric soprano with a strong, warm timbre, Nikki feels at home singing both early and romantic music and also enjoys tackling contemporary repertoire. Her debut on the opera stage was as part of the Dutch National Opera Academy singing Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Other roles at the academy included the title role in Massenet’s Cendrillon with the Residentie Orchestra and Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel with the Netherlands Youth Orchestra conducted by Antony Hermus.

In 2017 Nikki made her debut at Dutch National Opera singing the role of Anima Ingrate in Il ballo delle Ingrate, part of the Monteverdi Madrigals staged by Pierre Audi in collaboration with Les Talents Lyriques and Christoph Rousset. In 2019 she sang Mrs Nordstrom in Sondheim’s A Little Night Music with the Nederlandse Reisopera which went on tour throughout The Netherlands.

After making her debut with the Radio Philharmonic orchestra in Saint-Saens’ Oratorio de Noel conducted by Ed spanjaard, she returned to the Zaterdagmatinee at the Concertgebouw singing Ginevra Scotti in Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten and the role of Sorge in Schumann’s Szenen aus Goethes Faust. Next season she will be returning to the Concertgebouw to sing music of Bach and Verhulst.

Nikki has an extensive concert repertoire which she performs regularly, including Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion, St. John’s Passion, Weihnachtsoratorio, and several cantatas, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Händel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Requiem. She was a guest with The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra singing Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in a masterclass for conductors led by Danielle Gatti. In 2017 Nikki won several prizes at The International Vocal Competition in ‘s Hertogenbosch, amongst other the Opera prize of The Netherlands. Nikki is strongly committed to the performance of Lieder and has given song recitals in various halls in the Netherlands together with pianists Andrea Vasi and Daan Boertien.

Earlier this season she sang a recital together with Thomas Beijer in The International Lied Festival Zeist.

Website: https://nikkitreurniet.com

Reviews

“…fantastically confident voice and radiant tones,”

Nikki Treurniet's Susanna pulls all the strings over three and a half acts. With a versatile, fantastically confident voice and radiant tones, she shaperd her role and showed all its facets from girlish to sly. In the fourth act, she also demonstrates a moving emotionality. I suffered with her in every scene. It doesn't get any better than that. – GFO Hanover, 2022

“…she wraps the whole hall in warmth…”

Soprano Nikki Treurniet succeeds particularly well as the second vampyre bride, when she wraps the whole hall in warmth with her great solo song — TAZ, 2022