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Reger: Mariä Wiegenlied | complete | Nina Kopparhed, soprano and Jelena Makarova, piano | Live

Panis Angelicus (excerpt) | Nina Kopparhed, soprano

Sibelius: "Till Kvällen", Op. 17 No.6 | Nina Kopparhed Soprano and Jelena Makarova, piano | Live

About Nina

London-based Classical soprano: opera, oratorio and concert singer and recitalist. Works all around the UK and abroad.

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Singer (soprano)

London

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Nina is a Swedish opera and concert singer, based in London. Nina made her professional UK singing debut in 2011 performing Mozart: Exsultate Jubilate with the Dunblane Chamber Orchestra, and has since been busy as a oratorio and concert soloist and giving recitals in both England and Scotland as well as abroad. Highlights include a recital onboard the Cruise ship Saga "Sapphire", as well as recitals for the Moffatt and Dumfries music societies, Paisley Abbey recital series, the Harrow Summer Music Festival, The Schubert Institute and more. Nina enjoys collaborating with living composers: her first award winning recording was in 2022, when she was featured as a soloist on Stewart Lane's "A Mouthful of Aqueducts": that video went on to win 9 awards in film festivals around the world. In 2024, Nina did 3 Album recordings: Anthony Esland's The Amherst Chronicles (solo soprano and piano), which is available on all platforms; Stewart Lane's "We are all Here" (one solo track "Overgrown and 2 ensemble tracks, including the title track), also on general release, and Neil Crossland's "Songs of Travel and Rest" (7 songs, Solo soprano with the composer playing the piano) which will be released in 2025. Nina's solo track from Stewart Lanes 2024 album is used as the music for Eric Fong's award winning short film "Apparitions", which is appearing in various film festivals during 2025. Nina is also an opera singer, mainly Mozart roles including the Queen of the Night, (which is her favourite and which she has performed in multiple productions); Despina, Susanna, Ilia, Vitellia and others, but also roles such as Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos), Miss Wordsworth (Albert Herring), The Governess (The Turn of the Screw). Nina's former career was as a freelance violinist/viola player: mainly as a chamber musician, but also with orchestras such as RSNO, Scottish Ballet, Scottish Festival Orchestra Bampton Opera, Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Heart of England Ensemble Ensemble. She still plays professionally: Lately, she has specialised in playing solo violin and/or viola for operatic performances or touring productions. Nina can offer a package to both play and sing for your event (please see the pricing options for details). Nina is also an arranger and publishes her arrangements through Arcantora Publications. You can purchase her arrangements through Sheet Music Plus.

Nina's Reviews

The second half of the evening was a production of the Mozart medley A Night in Vienna. Set in the reception area of the Vienna Grand Hotel and including songs from Mozart’s most famous Operas: Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, Cosi fan tutte and The Marriage of Figaro. Two men vie for the love of one woman and use all the tricks in the book to win her. Aidan Coburn, Nick Dwyer and Nina Kopparhed are all wonderful and the English libretto by Pamela Schermann is at times hilarious. Brilliantly acted by all three performers and Aidan Coburn’s singing is so beautiful I was almost moved to tears. A thoroughly enjoyable evening

Nina really came into her own in her performance of three songs by Frank Bridge...The standard throughout was extraordinarily fine both musically and technically

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Nina's Song list

Most requested for weddings:

Schubert: Ave Maria

Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria

Handel: Eternal source of Light Divine

Puccini: Chi il bel sogno di Doretta

Faure: Panis Angelicus

Puccini: O mio babbino caro

Mozart: Alleluia (Exsultate, Jubilate)

Handel: Rejoice greatly (The Messiah)

Most requested for corporate work/product unveilings etc:

Time to say goodbye/Con te partiro

Nella Fantasia

Puccini: Nessun Dorma

Puccini: Chi il bel sogno

Puccini: O mio babbino caro

Mozart: Der Holle Rache

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Roles:

Britten: Albert Herring: Miss Wordsworth (ENG)

Britten: The Turn of the Screw: The Governess (ENG)

Mozart: Cosi fan Tutte: Despina (ITA)

Mozart: Cosi fan Tutte: Fiordiligi (ITA) (retired)

Mozart: Die Zauberflote: Die Konigin der Nacht (GER/ENG)

Mozart: Die Zauberflote: Erste Dame/Knabe (ENG)

Mozart: Idomeneo: Ilia (ITA)

Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito: Vitellia (ITA)

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro: Susanna (ITA)

Mozart: Don Giovanni: Donna Elvira (ITA)

Nino Rota: I due Timidi: Lucia (ITA)

Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Olympia (ENG)

Puccini: Suor Angelica Prima Cercatrice/Touriere (ITA)

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: Belinda (ENG)

R Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos: Zerbinetta (GER)

R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier: Marianne (GER)

Sullivan: Iolanthe: Celia (ENG)

Sullivan: Pirates of Penzance: Edith (ENG)

Tchaikovsky: Iolanta: Brigitta (RUS)

Tchaikovsky: Queen of Spades: Prilepa (RUS)

Concert/Oratorio

Bach, JS: Cantata 140 "Wachet Auf"

Bach, JS: Magnificat

Britten: Les Illuminations

Handel: 9 Deutsche Arien

Handel: Dixit Dominus Soprano 1

Handel: Messiah (the)

Handel: Ode on the Birthday of Queen Anne

Haydn: Kleine Orgelmesse

Haydn: the Creation

Haydn: Nelson Mass

Mendelssohn: Elijah

Mozart: Exsultate, Jubilate

Mozart: Mass in C minor Soprano 1

Mozart: Requiem

Telemann: Schmeckt und sehet

Telemann: Cantata: Zurne nur, du alte schlange

Telemann: Cantata: Warum verstellst du die Gebarden

Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5

Vivaldi: Cantata "Nulla in mundo, pax sincera"

Zipoli: Ad mariam

Sacred (not oratorio; selection)

Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria

Faure: Panis Angelicus

Mascagni: Ave Maria

Puccini: Salve Regina

Reger, Max: Maria Wiegenlied

Schubert: Ave Maria

Lieder (Selection)

Argento, Dominick: Spring

Beach, Amy: 3 Browning Songs

Bridge, Frank: Come to me in my dreams

Bridge, Frank: Love went a-riding

Bridge, Frank: So early in the morning, O!

Bridge, Frank: Thy hand in mine

Canteloube, Joseph: 3 Bourrees (Chants d'Auvergne)

Canteloube, Joseph: L'Antouneo (Chants d'Auvergne)

Canteloube, Joseph: Pastourelle (chants d'Auvergne)

Chaminade, Cecile: Ecrin

Chaminade, Cecile: L'Ete

Chaminade, Cecile: Mots d'Amour

Crossland, Neil: 3 Bronte Songs

Crossland, Neil: Dream within a Dream

Crossland:, Neil How do I love Thee

Crossland, Neil: Songs of Travel and Rest, Op. 57 (2017: 7 songs)

Crossland, Neil: Spellbound (Lyrics: Emily Bronte)

Crossland, Neil: To a Sky-Lark

Esland, Anthony: The Amherst Chronicles (2018: 7 songs)

Finzi, Gerald: It was a lover and his lass

Finzi, Gerald: O fair to see

Head, Michael: A blackbird singing (Over the rim of the Moon)

Head, Michael: The Ships of Arcady (Over the rim of the Moon)

Ives, Charles: "The Swimmers"

Ives, Charles: Walking

Laitman, Lori: Early Snow (2003: 3 songs)

Lehmann, Lisa: But if the soul... I sent my soul through the invisible (From a Persian Garden)

Lehmann, Lisa: Each morn a thousand roses bring (From a Persian Garden)

Liszt, Franz: Die Lorelei

Puccini: E l'uccellino

Purcell, Henry: If music be the food of Love

Rachmaninoff, Sergei: Sireni

Rachmaninoff, Sergei: Spring Waters

Rachmaninoff, Sergei: Zdes Kharasho

Reger, Max: Maria Wiegenlied

Schubert, Franz: An mein Herz

Schubert, Franz: Die Abgebluhte Linde

Schubert, Franz: Gretchen am Spinnrade

Schonberg, Arnold: Erwartung, Op. 2 No. 1

Schonberg, Arnold: Waldsonne, Op. 2 No. 4

Sibelius, Jean: Flickan kom ifran sin alsklings mote

Sibelius, Jean: Till kvallen/Illalle

Sibelius, Jean: Varen flyktar hastigt

Stenhammar, Wilhelm: Flickan kom ifran sin alsklings mote

Stenhammar, Wilhelm: Flickan knyter i Johannenatten

Stenhammar, Wilhelm: I skogen

Stenhammar, Wilhelm: Melodi

Stenhammar, Wilhelm: Minnessang

Stenhammar, Wilhelm: Mansken

Stenhammar, Wilhelm: Skizz: Blas, blas du vintervind

Strauss, Richard: Die Nacht

Strauss, Richard: Morgen

Wilson, Mark: White in the moon

Wolf, Hugo: Gesegnet sei das Grun

Wolf, Hugo: Lied vom der Winde/Sausewind

with piano and another instrument

Argento, Dominick: To be sung upon the water

Beach, Amy. 3 Browning Songs, Op. 44

Schubert, Franz: Der hirt auf dem Felsen

Spohr, Ludwig: 6 Deutsche Lieder

Lieder with an instrument other than piano

Holst, Gustav: 4 songs for voice and violin

Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Along the Field: 8 songs for voice and violin

Vaughan Williams, Ralph: 3 Vocalises for clarinet and piano

Soprano and string Quartet

Schonberg, Arnold: String Quartet No. 2

Nina's Prices

Last updated: 2025

Note: prices may vary based on travel distance. For an exact quote, click “Check availability”.

Duration	Price
Short performance (up to 15 min)	£150
Up to 1 hour	£200
Up to 2 hours	£312.50
Up to 3 hours	£437.50

Wedding ceremony with pianist1 hour

This includes: music before the service begins, Entrance of the bride music during the signing of the register, music as guests leave.

£312.50

Ceremony and Drinks reception: soprano+violin (me) and pianist: max 2 hours total2 hours

Pre-ceremony: Nina: playing violin/viola plus pianist Ceremony: Nina: singing for ceremony with piano (entrance/signing/exit) Reception: Background music played on violin/viola and piano for the remaining time of the 2 hour booking.

£500

Customer questions

What do your clients love most about your performances?

I have been told that the audiences love the way that I put the meaning of the songs across: I don't just sing the lyrics, I convey the story that the lyrics and melody tell. Audience member that I've spoken to after my performance also mention things such as "captivating performance", beautiful voice".

Which venues have you performed at in the past?

Harrow Summer Music Festival, Schubert institute, St James, Piccadilly, Opera in the City Festival, Austrian Cultural Forum, Kenton theatre, Rose Playhouse, St Mary the Virgin, Potters Bar St Mary's Watford St James, Islington, St Mary's Putney St Cuthbert's North Wembley, St Augustine's Hammersmith St Andrews, Muswell Hill, Kentwell Hall, Sudbury

Which artists have you been most influenced by?

Barbara Hannigan, an amazing contemporary music performer and conductor is one of my inspirations: she is a fantastic musician and a charismatic performer. I love the voice of Nadine Sierra and Natalie Dessay's acting and coloratura prowess is legendary.

What is the most high profile gig you've performed?

My debut was at the international Baroque festival in Moxos, Bolivia: I had to jump in as a singer as the soprano got ill last minute (I was a viola player in the orchestra who hadn't sung since I was a teenager): I sang for several hundred people in a stunning church in the Bolivian Jungle. This changed my life and led me to who I am today.

What if my timings change after I've booked you?

If it's for the same day, just a slight adjustment: just keep me updated and I'm happy to adjust with your timeline. As long as I know the confirmed schedule 48 hours before the date at the latest, changes are ok.

Can you provide an iPod/DJ service before and between your sets?

No, it wouldn't be appropriate for the work that I do (mostly either concert work or wedding ceremonies).

How much time do you need to set up?

10 minutes if it's just me, or with a pianist.

Can I pick the pieces you play from the set list?

Yes of course! As I'm a classical soprano, I usually perform: a) concerts: here, the repertoire is selected before the soloists are hired; b) Recitals, where I suggest a programme, but it can be customised for each venue; c) Weddings: every song is selected in consultation with the couple d) corporate events: selections in consultation with the event manager

Do you bring all the equipment you need to perform?

Not the piano (if I'm booked to sing with a pianist), but otherwise, yes.

Can you learn specific pieces before the event?

Yes, of course, if the piece suits my voice. I'm a very quick learner, but keep in mind that I'm a classical soprano, so there are certain things that just won't sound quite right in my voice. (I do sing classical, legit MT, shows, some jazz, and the occasional more mainstream thing) Please do ask though, and I'll let you know if it'll work.

Musicianship

Genres:

Classical, Baroque, Classical crossover, Contemporary classical, Opera, Christmas, Traditional church music, Film / TV music, Early music, Musical theatre, Easy listening, Light music, Originals

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Instruments:

Singer (soprano)

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Event types:

Concert, Wedding, Funeral / Memorial service, Church service, Hotel / Restaurant event, Private event, Corporate event, Charity event, Recording session, Theatre / Show, Cruise, Wedding proposal

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Other skills:

Orchestrator, Fluent sight-reader, Instrumental teaching, Theory teaching, Singing teaching, Arranger

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