About
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 Belcore L’Elisir d’Amore, Harlekin Ariadne auf Naxos, Guglielmo Così fan tutte, Papageno Die Zauberflöte, Schaunard La Bohème, Ned Keene Peter Grimes, Silvio Pagliacci as well as Dancaïro and Morales Carmen, alongside world premieres from composers including Samuel Penderbayne, Lorenzo Romano, Johannes Harneit and Salvatore Sciarrino. Last season he made his debut at Opernhaus Zürich as Phileas Fogg in the world premiere of In 80 Tagen um die Welt by Jonathan Dove, his house debut at Teatro La Fenice as La Fama Venere e Adone by Salvatore Scarrino, and his debut at the Lucerne Summer Festival.
In the 26/27 season, Nicholas sings in three new productions at Staatsoper Hamburg: Aeneas Dido and Aeneas, the world premiere or Gordon Kampe’s Störtebeker, and a production of Hans Werner Henze’s El Cimarrón as part of the Staatsoper’s festival of Political Music-Theatre. He will also sing concerts in the Elbphilharmonie, Rotterdam, Ghent, and Amsterdam with the NDR Vokal Ensemble and the Orchestra of the 18th Century.
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 Kent Nagano, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Ton Koopman, Daniel Reuss, 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 during his studies included 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.