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Ema Nikolovska, Mezzo-Soprano
Sean Shibe, Guitar
Princeton University Concerts Debut
When
Tuesday, October 27, 2026 | 6PM & 8:30PM
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10/27/2026 6:00 pm 10/27/2026 7:00 pm America/New_York Ema Nikolovska, Mezzo-SopranoSean Shibe, Guitar
Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall
Where
Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall
Tickets
How to Buy: This event is currently available as part of a Performances Up Close Series subscription, as an add-on to another subscription series, or through the Princeton University Student Early-Bird Program. Make-Your-Own packages (3 or more events) go on sale Wednesday, July 1, 2026 at 12 PM. Single tickets will be available online starting Monday, August 3, 2026 at 12 PM, and by phone beginning Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at 12 PM. Learn More>
General: $45 | Student: $12 | Princeton University Student: Free through Passport to the Arts.
The prices listed are inclusive of all processing fees.
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About the Event
Mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska—an arresting young voice known for her emotional directness and fearless programming—and guitarist Sean Shibe, a singular, genre-bending virtuoso equally at home with Renaissance lute music and electric guitar, make their Princeton University Concerts debuts with a program titled “Orlando.” Taking Virginia Woolf’s unruly protagonist as a point of ignition—shadowed by the epic poems Chanson de Roland and Orlando Furioso—they collide centuries with music by Schubert, Dowland, Bob Dylan, Thomas Adès, and Laurie Anderson, splicing the acoustic with the electric and threading in new commissions by Sasha Scott, Cassandra Miller, Linda Catlin-Smith, and Nahre Sol. The result isn’t a tidy narrative but a charged drift through love, fracture, and self-reinvention—music that feels unstable in the best way, held together by Shibe’s razor-edged precision and Nikolovska’s luminous and unguarded voice.
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Mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska—an arresting young voice known for her emotional directness and fearless programming—and guitarist Sean Shibe, a singular, genre-bending virtuoso equally at home with Renaissance lute music and electric guitar, make their Princeton University Concerts debuts with a program titled “Orlando.” Taking Virginia Woolf’s unruly protagonist as a point of ignition—shadowed by the epic poems Chanson de Roland and Orlando Furioso—they collide centuries with music by Schubert, Dowland, Bob Dylan, Thomas Adès, and Laurie Anderson, splicing the acoustic with the electric and threading in new commissions by Sasha Scott, Cassandra Miller, Linda Catlin-Smith, and Nahre Sol. The result isn’t a tidy narrative but a charged drift through love, fracture, and self-reinvention—music that feels unstable in the best way, held together by Shibe’s razor-edged precision and Nikolovska’s luminous and unguarded voice.
Program
- Sit On Stage!
“Orlando” – An hour-long concert with audience seated onstage featuring music by Schubert, Dowland, Bob Dylan, Thomas Adès, Laurie Anderson and new commissions by Sasha Scott, Cassandra Miller, Linda Catlin-Smith, and Nahre Sol.
