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British baritone Nicholas Mogg is a member of the Solo Ensemble at the Staatsoper Hamburg, where he was previously a member of the International Opera Studio. His recent roles include Dancairo and Morales Carmen, Baron Dauphol La Traviata, Il Commissario Imperiale Madama Butterfly, and Schlemihl Les Contes d’Hoffmann, as well as world première performances from composers Samuel Penderbayne, Lorenzo Romano, Johannes Harneit, and Salvatore Sciarrino. In the 23/24 season, Nicholas makes several important role debuts at Staatsoper Hamburg as Ned Keene Peter Grimes, Silvio I Pagliacci, and Guglielmo Così fan tutte.

Recent concert highlights include his debut as a soloist at the Elbphilharmonie, appearances at the Barbican Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Palau de la Música Catalana, Bozar Brussels, KKL Luzern, and the Philharmonie de Paris with conductors including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Ton Koopman, Daniel Reuss and Sir Roger Norrington, and Alan Gilbert. Other recent engagements include tours of Bach’s B minor Mass, St John and St Matthew Passions with the Orchestra of the 18th Century, Handel’s Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate with Holland Baroque, and Handel’s Messiah with the English Chamber Orchestra, Orquesta Ciudad de Valencia, and the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla.

Previous roles include Dandini La Cenerentola for West Green House Opera, Aeneas Dido & Aeneas for English Touring Opera, and Don Giovanni Don Giovanni for the Royal Academy of Music.

His debut recording of music by Carl Loewe, alongside pianist Jâms Coleman, was released in December 2021 to wide-spread critical acclaim. He was a ‘Rising Star’ in BBC Music Magazine and has been labelled as ‘One to Watch’ by Gramophone Magazine editor Martin Cullingford who described him as “instantly engaging and communicative.”

Winner of the 2017 Royal Over-Seas League Singers Section, Nicholas Mogg is a graduate of the Opera Course at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Mark Wildman and Iain Ledingham, and of Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a choral scholar. Nicholas is an alumnus of the National Opera Studio in the UK, where he was supported by a Young Artist Development Award through the Glyndebourne New Generation Programme. He was previously an Alvarez Young Artist at Garsington Opera.