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The French tenor of Slavic origin, Nikola Todorovitch, studied percussion at the Conservatoire de Montpellier in the class of Marcel Jorand while taking singing lessons with maestro Jean Angot. After graduating, he entered in 1987 the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris and completed his training from 1989 at the Ecole de Chant de l'Opéra de Paris, in Michel Sénéchal's class while perfecting his skills with Jean Angot. In 1991 he moved to Verona where he met the tenor Giuseppe Giacomini and worked with him. In 1995, he was finalist at the Great Enrico-Caruso International Singing Competition in Milan, and in 1996 was awarded a title as well as the Prize for Best Foreign Performer at the Great Giuseppe-di-Stefano International Singing Competition in Trapani, Sicily.
Since his debut in 1990 at the Opéra Comique, Nikola Todorovitch has performed successfully on the greatest French, Belgian, Italian and Swiss operatic stages. Among his recent performances are Ernesto in Don Pasquale at the Opéra-Bastille, Nemorino in L'Elisir d'amoré at the Opéra Bastille, at the Teatro Regio in Turin and in several Italian cities, as well as Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Florville in Il Signor Bruschino during two French tours. After Paris in La Belle Hélène at the Théâtre de Lausanne in 1994, he played, in 1995, Alfredo in La Traviata at the Teatro Sociale in Mantua, Faust (title role) by Charles Gounod in Verona and Elvino (La Sonnambula) at the Théâtre of Sassari. His Italian career led him, from 1995 to 1997, to interpret the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto on several occasions, and to play Giannetto in La Gazza ladra at the Massimo Theater in Palermo. More recently, he is Rodolfo in La Bohème in Havana (1997). At the same time he appeared in numerous concerts (Messa di Gloria by Puccini, Messe Sainte-Cécile by C. Gounod, Te Deum by Salieri, Stabat Mater and Petite messe solennelle by Rossini). |
