Nicole Wacker joined the ensemble of Theater Bonn in the season of 2024/2025 where she performed as Oberto in Händel's "Alcina", Queen of the night in "Die Zauberflöte", The Scientist in the pop-opera "Vespertine" based on Björks eponymous album, and in the role of Danica in Ana Skolovics chamber opera "Svadba". She gave her German debut at the Aalto Musiktheater Essen in a new production of "Die Zauberflöte" in the role of Queen of the night. She debuted the role very successfully at the OperaLombardias Tournée of "Die Zauberflöte" (Teatro Sociale di Como, Teatro Ponchielli di Cremona, Teatro Grande di Brescia, Teatro Fraschini di Pavia) and then performed the role at Teatro Verdi di Trieste under the baton of Beatrice Venezi. 2021-2023 Nicole Wacker was part of the prestigious Accademia Teatro alla Scala, where she debuted in their production of "Thaïs" as Charmeuse, as well as in "Cenerentola per i bambini" as Clorinda. In the season of 2022/23 she is part of the children's opera "Il piccolo principe", covered Lisette Oropesa in the role of Lucia Ashton and sang the part of Berta in a production of "Il Barbiere di Siviglia". 

2022 she debuted at the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo in one of the titular roles (Serafina) of Donizettis "Chiara e Serafina" at the Teatro Sociale di Bergamo. In the summer of 2022 she made a successful debut in the opera studio of the Bregenzer Festspiele, singing the titular role in Joseph Haydns "Armida". In 2023 she was awarded in the AsLiCo Competition in Como, winning the part of the Queen of the Night.

 

Wacker accomplished her studies at Hochschule der Künste Bern with Prof. Christian Hilz, Bachelor, Master of Performance and Specialized Performance soloist, all with summa cum laude. In her last degree she was also awarded by the Tschumi Foundation for completing with the overall highest grade. She won also prizes from the Friedl Wald Foundation, the Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation and received support from the Hannes Müller Foundation during her studies at Academia Teatro alla Scala. 

 

2015-2018 she participated in the summer courses of Austria Barock Akademie (ABA), where she discovered her passion for early music, working with Susanne Rydén, Roberta Mameli, Mary Collins and Christian Hilz to name a few.

Other masterclasses gave her the opportunity to work with Dame Emma Kirkby, Christiane Oelze, Eric Schneider, Sophie Raynaud, and Michael Volle. In the category of Lied she was brought forward by Thomas Hampson, Martina Jankovà, Gerard Wyss and Ivo Kahànek.

 

In the Accademia she was taught by Luciana D'Intino, as well as Pietro Spagnoli, Vincenzo Scalera and Michele D'Elia. She also had the opportunity to study with Gregory Kunde, Barbara Frittoli, Michele Pertusi and Alexandre Dratwicki. The collaboration with several conductors such as Sesto Quatrini, Evelino Pidò, Oliver Diaz, Vitali Alekseenok, Riccardo Chailly and Roberto Abbado completed her formation at the renowned institution. With the latter she still happily collaborates and - after a successful performance at the Teatro lirico Milano - was invited to join him for concerts at Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Opera Carlo Felice di Genova.

As a laureate in the AsLiCo competition she also got to frequent masterclasses with Silvia Dalla Benetta and Maria Grazia Schiavo.

 

The prizewinner concerts of the Austria Barock Akademie led her to the ORF Radiokulturhaus in Vienna, the early music winter Festival in Schwetzingen and the Queen Christina Festival in Stockholm. A special place in her work belongs to the venetian composer Barbara Strozzi, who inspired her to her own performance concept BarockBar. BarockBar was first performed in the beginning of 2020, before the Covid-19-outbreak, and was very well received. 

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Autumn 2018 Wacker won first prize, as well as "Best performance of a piece composed by Clara Schumann" at the Kharkiv assemblies competition in Ukraine. With Jankovàs Masterclass she had the opportunity to perform Lieder by Britten and Fauré at the Rudolfinum in Prague. Benjamin Brittens Lied cycle "On this island" op. 11 brought her to the Gay Pride Festival in Berne as well as the Grande société de Berne. With great passion she also worked out the Mignon-Lieder of Schubert, Schumann and Wolf, that were subject of her summa cum laude Bachelor Thesis. 

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Picture credit: AsLiCo Alessandra Sant'Ambrogio (Die Zauberflöte)​

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