Spain and Portugal: concerts, recitals and symphonic repertoire
Croatian bass-baritone Marko Mimica is one of the most prominent and sought-after soloists of his generation.
He graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Music in 2011, and that same year he participated in the prestigious Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival, which marked the beginning of his international career. Mimica subsequently became part of the ensemble at the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 2011 to 2016.
In the 2024-25 season, Mimica will debut at the Berlin Staatsoper with Verdi's opera Simon Boccanegra, sing in the premiere of the new production of Verdi's Macbeth at the Deutsche Oper Berlin directed by Marie-Eve Signeyrole, return to ABAO Bilbao with Tristan and Isolde, and give recitals in Oviedo, A Coruña, and Seville. In symphonic productions, he will perform in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis at the Kennedy Center in Washington conducted by Maestro Noseda, Rossini's Stabat Mater in Tokyo under the direction of Michele Mariotti, and perform Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death with the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada.
He is a regular at theaters such as the Opéra National and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the Dutch National Opera, the Sydney Opera House, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and the Arena di Verona, among others. He has also participated in festivals such as the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the BBC Proms, and the Edinburgh Festival.
Mimica has worked with conductors such as Giannandrea Noseda, Donald Runnicles, Daniel Oren, Maurizio Benini, Michele Mariotti, Riccardo Frizza, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Marco Armiliato, and Roberto Abbado, among others.
In the field of symphonic and concert music, he has performed Verdi's Requiem at the Berliner Philharmonie. He has sung Rossini's Stabat Mater at the Archiginnasio in Bologna, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Carnegie Hall in New York, and Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He has performed Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex at the Rai Auditorium in Turin, in Modena, Ferrara, and the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
His extensive repertoire includes a wide variety of works, from classic Italian and German operas to contemporary pieces, as well as concert and lied repertoire.
