Nikolas Nackley, Baritone
Young American baritone Nikolas Nackley has been acclaimed by the Boston Globe for his ability to “continually impress with his beautiful voice and acting.” Equally regarded for his concert and operatic work, Mr. Nackley has enjoys a thriving career on stages throughout New England, the West Coast, and abroad.
A proponent of new music, he was recently heard as the Postman in Lee Hoiby’s “The Scarf” with The New England Chamber Opera Series and was featured as Joe Pitt in the North American Premier of Peter Eötvös’s opera Angels in America a joint production of Opera Boston and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. His most recent operatic credits include the role of Demetrius in Festival Opera’s highly praised production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream under maestro Michael Morgan, the role of Deus in a staging of Charpentier’s dramatic Jesuit Motet Judicium Salomonis under the musical direction of John Finney, as well as his Opera Providence debut as Frank in Die Fledermaus. In 2004 he premiered the role of Andy in Roger Rudenstein’s “Grace” with the orchestra of Emmanuel Music, with whom he also performed the title role in Don Giovanni under the late Craig Smith. Stage engagements in New England include Granite State Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Boston, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Intermezzo Opera, The Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, and Opera Aperta. Other roles include Papageno, Pangloss, Assan, the Count, Figaro, and Aeneas.
Praised for his interpretations of the baroque and classical oratorio repertoire, Mr. Nackley’s solo concert appearances include the St. Matthew Passion and the Monteverdi Vespers with the Carmel Bach Festival. He has been featured in the St. John Passion with the New Hampshire Master Chorale, the Duruflé, Fauré, Mozart and Michael Haydn Requiems with the Newton Choral Society, Dartmouth Handel Society and the Fine Arts Chorale as well as numerous Messiah’s with orchestras and choruses throughout New England. Recent seasons include the St. Mathew Passion with Emmanuel Music, Bach’s Magnificat with the Handel and Haydn Society, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with the Heritage Chorale, and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music at Harvard Memorial Church. He has appeared on numerous occasions as a featured soloist with the Handel and Haydn Society at Boston’s Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall and is a frequent soloist in the renowned Emmanuel Music Sunday Cantata series at Emmanuel Church, Boston. In 2007, he was selected as the baritone soloist for the Virginia Best Adams vocal fellowship at the Carmel Bach Festival where he performed in both concert and master class under master teachers Sanford Sylvan, David Gordon, and Anne Grimm.
Mr. Nackley earned his Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory in Boston. He has served as the head of vocal faculty at The North Shore Conservatory at Endicott College in Beverley, Massachusetts. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Nikolas currently resides in Milton, Massachusetts.
