Nicola Wydenbach – Soprano, Vocal Coach and Creative Health Specialist.
Nicola Wydenbach is a graduate of the Royal College of Music. Supported by a scholarship from Diva Opera she completed her Graduate Diploma and is continuing her studies with Marie McLaughlin.
Nicola has worked extensively throughout Britain and Europe for companies including English National Opera Scottish Opera and Opera Rara.
Highlights include Russian Mother/Newspaper Seller in Death in Venice at the Aldeburgh and Bregenz Festivals, Giannetta in Donizetti’s Elixir of Love for Opera South, Juno in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld for Kentish Opera and the role of Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni for Longborough Festival Opera/CS Collaboration.
For Royal Opera House Education she created the role of Upper River Nymph in Ludd and Isis and Governess in Drowning in Imagination. She was also soprano soloist in Fables for Streetwise Opera which premiered at Spitalfields Winter Festival. She has also performed Dido in Dido and Aeneas with the Brook Street band. She has created the role of Teacher in a newly composed opera Hedgemond the Hedgehog by Emily Leather as well as Rebecca West in Amy Mallett’s Witchfinder both on stage and in audio form.
Oratorio solo works include Brahms’ Requiem conducted by Sir Neville Marriner; Vivaldi’s Gloria; Rutter’s Requiem; Mendelssohn’s Hear my Prayer and Elijah; Bach’s Mass in B Minor and Magnificat; Faure’s Requiem; Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle; Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit; Mozart’s Requiem, Coronation Mass, Mass in C Minor and Vespers; Dvorak’s Stabat Mater; Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem and Benedicite and Haydn’s Seasons, Nelson Mass and Mass in the Time of War, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat as well as Harvey’s Passion and Resurrection, Loussier’s Lumieres and Goodall’s Eternal Light.
Nicola was a young artist at the Aix-en-Provence Festival 2004. She has sung with the Monteverdi Choir, London Voices, Southwark Voices, Philharmonia Voices and the Mozart Festival Chorus. She has recorded on the soundtrack of two of the The Hobbit films as well as Damon Albarn’s album Dr Dee.
