Luciano Batinic.en

Born in 1977 in Split, Croatia, Luciano Batinic began to study trumpet at the Music School of his home town in 1986. In 1995 he attended the faculty of dental medicine at the University of Zagreb getting his degree in 2004. At the same time he started to dedicate himself to singing, first under the guidance of the former leading tenor of the Opera of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb Noni Žunec, then at the Music School Vatroslav Lisinski. He improved his vocal technique as well as the Verdian repertoire with the leading baritone of the Croatian National Theatre Vitomir Marof.

Singing Competitions and Master Classes:

2001: second prize at the International Competition of Opera Singers Ondina Otta in Maribor. He was the youngest finalist in the history of the competition.

2002: he attended a two-year scholarship program at the Accademia d´Arti e Mestieri dello Spettacolo del Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

2004: he took part in a master class under the guidance of mezzosoprano Christa Ludwig and the director Graham Vick.

2005: first prize at International Competition for Young Singers Belcanto 2005 in Rijeka and a special prize Italianità for the best interpretation of Italian arias.

2006: he won the award of the Croatian National Theater named after the celebrated Croatian baritone Vladimir Ruždjak.

Operatic debuts:

2002: Boris Godunov (Pimen); I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Lorenzo); Simon Boccanegra (Pietro); The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District (Old Convict); Don Carlo ( a Monk) – Zagreb, Croatian National Theatre.

2003: Rigoletto (Sparafucile) - Berlin, Komische Oper.

2004: La Parisina (Ernesto) - Bergamo, Teatro Donizetti.

2005: Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades (Narumov) – Milan, Arcimboldi; Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Don Basilio); La Bohème (Colline); Simon Boccanegra (Fiesco) – Zagreb, Croatian National Theatre.

2006: Il Trovatore (Ferrando) – Zagreb; Rigoletto (Sparafucile) – Berlin, Komische Oper; Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Don Basilio) - Milan, Arcimboldi; Don Giovanni (Leporello) - Split;

Don Giovanni - (Commendatore) – Zagreb. Il barbiere di Siviglia (Don Basilio) Zagreb and Maribor; Verdi’s and Mozart’s Requiem as well as the Croatian Glagolitic Requiem composed by the contemporary Croatian composer Igor Kuljerić - Zagreb; Lakmé (Nilakantha) - Maribor and Japan; Händel's Messiah with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra; Faust (Méphistophélès) in Maribor; Un ballo in maschera (Samuel) – Zagreb.

2007: Verdi's Requiem with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra in Ljubljana, Ballo in maschera - Zagreb; Bohème – Split.

2008: Rigoletto (Sparafucile) - Berlin; Lucia di Lammermoor (Raimondo) - Graz; Le Nozze di Figaro (Bartolo) – Teatro alla Scala, Milan.

2009: Don Carlo - tournée in Tokyo with Teatro alla Scala.

2010: Mazeppa (Kotchbey) – Zagreb.

2011: Nabucco (Zaccaria) – Chisinau; Don Giovanni (Commendatore) and Der fliegende Holländer (Daland) – Bern.

2012: Simon Boccanegra (Fiesco) – Wiesbaden; Parsifal (Gurnemanz) and Hamlet (Claudius) – Zagreb; Boris Godunov – Kaiserslautern; Rigoletto (Monterone) – Venice.

2013: Aida (Ramfis), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Don Basilio), Il trovatore (Ferrando), Lohengrin (Heinrich) in Zagreb; Simon Boccanegra (Fiesco) – Wiesbaden; Der fliegende Holländer – Split.

2014: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Don Basilio), Tosca (Scarpia), Lohengrin (Heinrich) and Eugene Onegin (Gremin) in Zagreb.

2015/16: Eugene Onegin (Gremin), Nabucco (Zaccaria), Tosca (Scarpia), Parsifal (Gurnemanz), Les vêpres siciliennes (Procida) - Zagreb; Rigoletto (Sparafucile) – Klosterneuburg; Don Carlos (Filippo II) – Vilnius.

2016/17: Aida and Turandot at Split Festival; Il barbiere di Siviglia – Zagreb; Otello (Montano) – Dresden; Don Carlos (Filippo II) – Vilnius.

2017/18: Don Carlo (Grande Inquisitore) – Braunschweig; Salome – Dresden; Simon Boccanegra (Fiesco) – Dijon; Mathis der Maler (Riedinger), L’elisir d’amore (Dulcamara) and Nabucco (Zaccaria) – Gelsenkirchen.

2018/19: Nabucco (Zaccaria) – Gelsenkirchen; Verdi’s Requiem, Don Carlo (Filippo II), Trovatore (Ferrando) in Zagreb; Tannhäuser (Hermann) and Simon Boccanegra (Fiesco) in Klagenfurt.

Between 2019 and 2022: Tannhäuser and Simon Boccanegra in Klagenfurt; Il trovatore and Lucia di Lammermoor in Zagreb; La forza del destino in Gelsenkirchen; Il trovatore in Zagreb, I vespri siciliani in Bergen; I vespri siciliani in Bergen; Nabucco in Zagreb.

Concert repertoire:

G. F. Händel: MESSIAH

J. Haydn: THERESIENMESSE

W. A. Mozart: REQUIEM; LITANIAE LAURETANAE

L. van Beethoven: NEUNTE SYMPHONIE

G. Rossini: PETITE MESSE SOLENNELLE

F. Schubert: MESSE in G-dur

C. Gounod: MESSE SOLENNELLE DE SAINTE-CÉCILE

A. Dvořák: STABAT MATER

G. Verdi: MESSA DA REQUIEM

I. Kuljerić: HRVATSKI GLAGOLJAŠKI REKVIJEM/CROATIAN GLAGOLITIC REQUIEM

Opera repertoire:

V. Bellini: I CAPULETI e I MONTECCHI - Lorenzo

G. Donizetti: PARISINA - Ernesto; LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR - Raimondo

G. Rossini: Il BARBIERE di SIVIGLIA - Don Basilio; La CENERENTOLA - Alidoro

W.A. Mozart: IDOMENEO - La Voce (Voice of Neptune); DON GIOVANNI - Leporello, Il Commendatore; LE NOZZE DI FIGARO - Dr.Bartolo

G. Verdi: AIDA - Ramfis; UN BALLO IN MASCHERA - Samuel; DON CARLO – Filippo II, Un Frate (A Monk); RIGOLETTO – Sparafucile, Monterone; SIMON BOCCANEGRA - Pietro, Fiesco; MACBETH- Banco; Il TROVATORE – Ferrando; NABUCCO - Zaccaria