The Italian countertenor Nicolò Balducci was born in 1999 and has won several awards, such as the 1st Prize and Young Artist Prize at the 2022 Renata Tebaldi Competition, 3rd Prize and Young Artist Award at the 2022 Cesti Competition in Innsbruck and 1st Prize at the 2021 Concorso Niccolò Piccinni.

Highlights in 2023/24 include role debuts as Gilbert in Zingarelli’s Giulietta e Romeo, Imeneo in Vivaldi’s Gloria e Imeneo, Nerone in a concert version of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea and concerts of Handel’s Messiah, all at Château de Versailles. Furthermore, he will sing the role of Morte Eterna in Draghi’s oratorio Il dono della vita eterna at Festival d’Ambronay, conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón, Arzane in Vivaldi’s Arsilda with La Cetra and Andrea Marcon in concert in Basel, give his role and house debut at Landestheater Salzburg as Lucio Cinna in Mozart’s Lucio Silla, his house debuts as Nerone at Oper Köln and at Opéra de Toulon in Ted Huffman’s celebrated production of L’incoronazione di Poppea and appear in Ristori’s Pigmalione at Teatro Sociale di Rovigo.

Last season, Nicolò Balducci gave role and house debuts as Nerone at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, conducted by Leonardo Garcia Alarcón, and at the Innsbrucker Festwochen

as Osmino in Vivaldi’s La fida ninfa, sang Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara and a series of concerts throughout Sweden, together with Dan Laurin and Anna Paradiso, including the Stockholm Early Music Festival.