A star in the making…exquisitely
artful…
The Sunday Times (London)
...an artist who must be heard.
National Public Radio
...the ravishing beauty of
his tone lingered in the ear.
Chicago Sun-Times
...vocally and dramatically at the level
of the finest international artists.
Chicago Sun-Times
An uncommonly dulcet lyric tenor…
Chicago Tribune
...a bright, confident tenor…
The Financial Times
The young American tenor possesses a lyric
instrument of exceptional quality…
Opera News
The artist behind the voice takes
complete possession of the music…
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Latest News
NICHOLAS’ RECORDING OF ‘L’OLIMPIADE’ WITH THE VENICE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA NOW AVAILABLE ON NAÏVE
Naïve Classique presents a classical music mashup of Olympic proportions! Many composers based operas of the libretto L’Olimpiade by Metastasio. This unique recording by the Venice Baroque Orchestra brings together sixteen of the “Olympian” composers who set the libretto to music, following the full libretto of the opera through different pieces of each composer’s setting. It includes 16 arias in their world premiere recordings.
NICHOLAS’ PERFORMANCE WITH FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS & THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC TO BE BROADCAST 6/25/2012
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos will conduct the New York Philharmonic performances of selections from Manuel de Falla’s Atlántida, and Carl Orff’s complete Carmina Burana, May 31-June 2 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall…This program will be broadcast the week of June 25 on The New York Philharmonic This Week a radio concert series syndicated weekly to more than 300 stations nationally, and to 122 outlets internationally, by the WFMT Radio Network. It is hosted by actor Alec Baldwin.
CHICAGO TRIBUNE REVIEWS NICHOLAS’ EVANGELIST IN THE ST. JOHN PASSION WITH THE CHICAGO BACH PROJECT
..In his Passion settings, Bach interrupts the action to allow the vocal soloists to sum up the prevailing mood. By far the best of these singers was Nicholas Phan, who delivered the Evangelist’s long and demanding narration with a sweet yet strongly projected lyric tenor and urgently dramatic expression. He made a compelling storyteller, holding the audience at rapt attention throughout the two-hour performance…
