女高音/艾嘉．米高拉 Aga Mikolaj
前慕尼黑巴伐利亞國立歌劇院團員，艾嘉．米高拉師事於伊莉莎白•舒瓦茲柯芙，並擔任莫札特歌劇女主角而享負盛名。現在累積寬廣而多元的曲目，包括理查．史特勞斯、威爾第和華格納歌劇的主要角色，讓她在歐洲、美國和日本都獲得高度評價。
其職業生涯中的亮眼表現包括，首次在巴黎歌劇院和史卡拉歌劇院演出《魔笛》、柏林國家歌劇院、森柏歌劇院演出《唐．喬望尼》、葛萊德伯恩音樂節演出《女人皆如此》和蒙地卡羅歌劇院演出《法斯塔夫》。其他值得注意的表演，包括：參與導演迪米崔．策尼亞柯夫在莫斯科大劇院劇院製作的歌劇《唐．喬望尼》，飾演唐納．安娜，在德國埃森阿爾托劇院飾演《紐倫堡的名歌手》的伊娃，以及在慕尼黑巴伐利亞國立歌劇院演出《萊茵黃金》的佛萊亞。她還與杜達美所指揮的洛杉磯愛樂合作，飾演《唐．喬望尼》的愛維拉，並在小澤征爾的指揮下，與維也納國家歌劇院日本巡迴演出。2013年，艾嘉．米高拉參與巴倫波因指揮的《指環》系列，在史卡拉歌劇院、柏林國家歌劇院和倫敦BBC 逍遙音樂節中皆成功演出。
作為一位圓熟的音樂表演者，艾嘉．米高拉曾在大西洋兩岸演出馬勒、貝多芬、舒伯特、史特勞斯、威爾第、潘德列斯基和席曼諾夫斯基等作曲家的經典名曲。本樂季她返回皇家音樂廳管弦樂團，在馬庫斯．史坦茲的指揮下世界首演德特勒夫．格蘭內特的《安魂曲》，並且與指揮詹姆斯．費德克和海牙市立管弦樂團合作理查．史特勞斯《最後四首歌》。其他演出包括與指揮詹姆斯．康倫、義大利國家廣播交響管弦樂團合作貝多芬第九號交響曲；與蒙特卡羅愛樂樂團演出由展路易吉．展梅蒂指揮的《莊嚴彌撒》，以及與國立里昂管弦樂團演出由安德里斯．波嘉指揮的《威森東克之歌》。
近期的舞臺演出，艾嘉．米高拉回到東京新國立劇場，在由安德理亞．荷穆齊製作，以及特林克斯的歌劇《費加洛的婚禮》中，飾演伯爵夫人。
Aga Mikolaj
Soprano
A former member of Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper, Aga Mikolaj studied with the late Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and built her reputation on Mozart’s leading ladies. Having now amassed a wide and varied repertoire including principal roles by Richard Strauss, Verdi and Wagner, she has gone on to enjoy operatic success throughout Europe, the USA and Japan.
Highlights of an extensive career include debuts at Opéra national de Paris and Teatro alla Scala (Die Zauberflöte), Staatsoper unter den Linden, Semperoper Dresden (Don Giovanni), at Glyndebourne Festival (Cosí fan tutte) and at Opera de Monte Carlo (Falstaff). Further notable appearances have included a role debut as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) in Dmitri Tcherniakov's production at the Bolshoi Theatre, Eva (Die Meistersinger) at the Aalto Theater in Essen and Freia (Das Rheingold) at the Bayerische Staatsoper. She has also sung Donna Elvira with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel and on tour with the Wiener Staatsoper in Japan under Seiji Ozawa. In 2013, Aga Mikolaj appeared as part of Daniel Barenboim’s triumphant Ring Cycle at Teatro alla Scala, Berliner Staatsoper and as part of London’s BBC Proms.
A consummate concert artist, Aga Mikolaj has performed on both sides of the Atlantic in works by composers such as Mahler, Beethoven, Schubert, Strauss, Verdi, Penderecki and Szymanowski. This season she returns to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for the world premiere of Detlev Glanert’s Requiem under Markus Stenz, and to The Hague with the Residentie Orkest for Vier letzte lieder conducted by James Feddeck. Elsewhere Mikolaj sings Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai under James Conlon, Missa Solemnis under Gianluigi Gelmetti with Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and Wesendonck Lieder with Orchestre National de Lyon under Andris Poga.
On stage, Aga Mikolaj returns to the New National Theatre Tokyo as Contessa in Andreas Homoki’s production of Le nozze di Figaro under Constantin Trinks.
