Spain, Portugal and Latin America: concerts, recitals and symphonic repertoire
Croatian bass-baritone Marko Mimica is one of the most prominent and sought-after soloists of his generation.
A graduate of the Zagreb Academy of Music in 2011, that same year he participated in the prestigious Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival, marking the beginning of his international career. Subsequently, he was part of the company at the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 2011 to 2016.
In the 2025-26 season, Mimica will face new challenges and return to prestigious stages. He will debut at the Opéra de Lyon, performing the four diabolical roles in Les contes d’Hoffmann in the Damiano Michieletto production with Emmanuel Villaume conducting. He will return to the Opéra Royal de Wallonie as Alfonso d’Este in Lucrezia Borgia, in a new staging by Jean-Louis Grinda with Giampaolo Bisanti conducting. At the Teatro Real in Madrid, he will perform Ferrando in Il trovatore under the direction of Nicola Luisotti. At the Opera di Roma, he will sing Colline in La Bohème, staged by Davide Livermore and conducted by Jader Bignamini. At the Gran Teatre del Liceu, he will return to debut the role of Assur in Rossini’s Semiramide, in a concert version conducted by Paolo Arrivabeni. He will also debut at the Teatro Cervantes in Málaga, reprising the role of King Marke in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, in the production by Allex Aguilera.
In the symphonic field, he will perform in Bratislava with the Slovak Philharmonic under the baton of its principal conductor, Daniel Raiskin, and will tour Spain with the same orchestra, including concerts at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, the Auditorio de Zaragoza, and the ADDA in Alicante. He will perform Verdi’s Requiem at the Palau de la Música in Valencia with the Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana conducted by Jordi Bernàcer, and Dvořák’s Te Deum at the Auditorio Príncipe Felipe in Oviedo, as part of the official concert for the Princess of Asturias Awards.
In the 2024-25 season, he made his debut at the Berlin Staatsoper with Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, premiered Macbeth at the Deutsche Oper Berlin under the stage direction of Marie-Eve Signeyrole and musical direction of Enrique Mazzola, participated in Zelmira by Calixto Bieito at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro, and sang I Lombardi alla prima crociata at the Teatro Real. In concert, he performed Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at the Kennedy Center in Washington with Gianandrea Noseda, Rossini’s Stabat Mater in Tokyo under Michele Mariotti, and Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death with the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada conducted by Lucas Macías.
He regularly performs at theatres 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 Royal Opera House in London, the Vienna State Opera, the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, ABAO Bilbao Opera, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the Dutch National Opera, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Sydney Opera House, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence, the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Royal Opera Muscat, the Teatro Regio di Parma, and the Semperoper Dresden, among others. He has also participated in festivals such as Pesaro, the Arena di Verona, the BBC Proms, Tsinandali, and Edinburgh, where he stood out for his interpretive versatility.
He has worked with conductors such as Gianandrea Noseda, Donald Runnicles, Daniel Oren, Maurizio Benini, Michele Mariotti, Riccardo Frizza, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Marco Armiliato, and Roberto Abbado, among others, and stage directors such as Robert Carsen, Claus Guth, Willy Decker, Christof Loy, David Alden, Calixto Bieito, Damiano Michieletto, Emma Dante, and Pier Luigi Pizzi, among others.
In the symphonic repertoire, he has performed Verdi’s Requiem with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Archiginnasio in Bologna, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Carnegie Hall in New York, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, as well as Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex at the RAI Auditorium in Turin, in Modena, Ferrara, and the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
