With fiery, dynamic and easily playful singing, Nina Dominko inspires audiences at home and abroad. With her voluminous colorful soprano she reaches enviable singing heights, wrapped in velvet of angelic grace.
In the past two seasons, she debuted as Giulietta (V. Bellini, I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Adina (G. Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore), Zerbinetta (R. Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos) in SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljana and performed as La Regina on the big stage of the Trieste Verdi Opera Theater in Italy (W. A. Mozart, Mozartiade).
Her stage creations include roles such as Sister Constance of the Poulenc opera Conversations of the Carmelites, Rosina in Rossini’s comic opera, The Barber of Seville, Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, and Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata, also Olympia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Königin der Nacht (Die Zauberflöte).
Nina has received numerous awards in singing competitions. In 2019 she won third place at the International Singing Competition “Bellano paese degli artisti” in Italy, and in 2018 she reached first place at the International Singing Competition “Lav Mirski” in Osijek. For outstanding singing performances on Opera and Concert stages, she received the Prešeren Student Award in 2012. In 2010 she was also a semi-finalist of the Ondina Otta International Singing Competition in Maribor.
She graduated Singing with “Summa cum laude” at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana in class of prof. Pija Brodnik. She also completed her studies in Music Pedagogy at the Faculty of Education in Maribor. During her studies, she received additional education from world’s top singers (B. Fink, C. Spencer, S. McCoy).
She sang solo roles in Orff’s Stage Cantata Carmina Burana, Mozart’s “Sparrow Mass” in C major (Spatzenmesse, K. 220), Haydn’s Missa brevis. She has performed on the concert subscription “Moves and Delays” with renowned pianist Charles Spencer; as part of the Youth to Youth Concert of the Musical Youth of Ljubljana, featuring Brahms’ Love Walks; at the 7th Concert of the International Music Cycle Young Virtuosos; and at several concerts with the Slovenian Army Orchestra. She has also performed as a soloist with the SNG Maribor Symphony Orchestra at the Christmas New Year Concert, at the Opera Night Concert in the City Park and as a guest performer in Oderzo, Italy, and in Carmina burana for Ljubljana Festival.
She collaborated with renowned Slovenian conductor Marko Letonja, with the Symphony Orchestra of the Pech Faculty of Arts and as the Queen of the Night in a concert performance of the opera Die Zauberflöte at HNK Osijek; with Vojvodina Symphony orchestra and Slovenian Philharmonic.