Nicolò Balducci

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Biography
The young Italian countertenor Nicolò Balducci is rapidly gaining international recognition for his crystalline timbre and expressive stage presence. Praised for “singing with a sense of enjoyment and freedom” (OperaWire) and “the athleticism of his coloratura” (Gramophone), he is a 1st Prize and Young Artist Prize winner at the 2022 Renata Tebaldi Competition, recipient of the 3rd Prize and Young Artist Award at the 2022 Cesti Competition Innsbruck, and 1st Prize winner of the 2021 Concorso Niccolò Piccinni. For his portrayal of Lucio Cinna in Lucio Silla at Landestheater Salzburg, he is nominated as Best Male Newcomer for the Österreichischer Musiktheaterpreis 2025.

In the 2025/26 season, Nicolò Balducci returns to the Bayreuth Baroque Festival for his role debut as Sesto Pompeo in Cavalli’s Pompeo Magno, which he will also perform at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. He makes further house and role debuts as Ulisse in Handel’s Deidamia at Wexford Festival Opera, Annio in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito at Teatro La Fenice, Megacle in Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade at Teatro Ristori in Verona, and Miles in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw at Staatsoper Berlin. He also appears at the Händel-Festspiele Göttingen as Ulisse in Deidamia, a co-production with Wexford, and in his hometown of Bari. Upcoming concert projects include Vivaldi’s and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater at the Château de Versailles, as well as collaborations with Musica Sequenza, Il Gusto Barocco, and others.

Nicolò Balducci has already made significant debuts on major European opera and festival stages. He has sung Nerone in Ted Huffman’s celebrated production of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at Oper Köln, Opéra de Toulon, and the Palau de les Arts Valencia, and in concert performances across France and Canada with Cappella Mediterranea and Leonardo García Alarcón. Other recent roles include Ulisse in Porpora’s Iphigenia in Aulis at the Bayreuth Baroque Festival, Arbace in Mozart’s Mitridate at Opéra de Lausanne and Opéra de Montpellier, Lucio Cinna at Landestheater Salzburg, Fama in Conti’s Il trionfo della Fama with Ottavio Dantone and Accademia Bizantina at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik and Cherubino in 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.

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