Appreciated for his elegant singing style, Blagoj Nacoski is becoming one of the most interesting voice for Mozart repertoire of his generation.The Macedonian tenor was born in 1979 in Skopje, in a family of musicians. He studied music and opera singing both in Macedonia and in Italy.
In 2015 Blagoj debuted as Pong (Turandot)" at La Scala di Milano, Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola) in Cyprus, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) in Modena, Lucca and Sassari, Cantata for San Gennaro at San Carlo Theater of Naples, the main role in the World Premiere of “La paura” from Orazio Sciortino in Novara, as well as an operatic recital in Valencia and Liederabend in Milan. Mr. Nacoski made his operatic debut in 2003 on the stage of the Rome Opera House (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma) performing the role of Arturo in Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” under the conductor Daniel Oren and the stage director Graham Vick. Since that moment his career has been blooming across the continents. He sang at the most prestigious theaters and festivals in the world like Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, Salzburg Festival, Bayerische Staatsoper di Monaco, Seattle Opera, Teatro Regio di Parma, Opernhaus Zurich, Frankfurt Oper, Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Stuttgart Staatsoper, Macerata Opera Festival, the New York City Opera, Canadian Opera Company of Toronto, Royal Theater “La Monnaie” of Bruxelles, National Moravian-Slesian Theater of Ostrava, Teatro Solìs of Montevideo, Theatro Municipal of San Paolo, Miskolc Opera Festival, Macedonian National Opera of Skopje, Ohrid Summer Festival, Polish National Opera of Warsaw, Vilnius City Opera, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Theater, The New National Theater of Tokyo, Suntory Hall of Tokyo, and many others, singing roles like Ferrando (Mozart, Così fan tutte), Tamino (Mozart, The magic flute), Don Ottavio (Mozart, Don Giovanni), Belmonte (Mozart, The abduction of the Serraglio), Scipione (Mozart, Il sogno di Scipione), Alessandro (Mozart, Il Re pastore), Ernesto (Donizetti, Don Pasquale), Nemorino (Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore), Lindoro (Rossini, L’Italiana in Algeri), Don Narciso (Rossini, Il Turco in Italia), Almaviva (Rossini, The Barber of Seville), Don Ramiro (Rossini, La Cenerentola), Elvino (Bellini, La Sonnambula), Peter Quint (Britten, The Turn of the Screw), Lysander (Britten, A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Golo (Schumann, Genoveva) etc. Mr. Nacoski has been dedicated not only to operatic, but also to symphonic and chamber music. In Il Quirinale, the Rome palace of the President of Italy, in 2005 he performed in a concert in honor of Johannes Brahms and his Liebeslieder Waltzer, simultaneously broadcast on Radio RaiTre and Euroradio. Mr. Nacoski has performed so far with the most acclaimed conductors such as: Riccardo Chailly, Nicola Luisotti, Daniel Oren, Ivor Bolton, Bruno Bartoletti, Christoph von Dohnànyi, Riccardo Frizza, Thomas Guschlbauer, Antonello Allemandi, Will Crutchfield, Jonathan Webb, Paul Daniel, Julia Jones, Gerard Korsten, Robin Ticciati, Marcello Rota and the stage directors: Graham Vick, Gabriele Lavia, Daniele Abbado, Peter Kazaras, Marco Gandini, Alejandro Chacon, Michael Hampe, Mario Martone, Jürgen Flimm, Luc Bondy, Nikolaus Lehnhof, Christof Loy, John Cox, Claus Guth, Francesco Micheli, Marco Carniti, Michael Sturminger, Martin Glaser, Denis Krief, Davide Livermore, Michael Patrick Albano and others. In 2008 he was nominated “Ambassador of the Culture of Macedonia” on behalf of the Macedonian Government. In 2015 he was named “A Man of the Year” from the daily newspaper “Nova Makedonija”. He also recorded several CDs and DVDs for Deutsche Grammophone, Decca, Dynamic, TDK Music as well for the Japanese TV HNK, the National Macedonian Radio and Television MRTV and the Italian RAI. His recent engagements also include Tosca at the New Yor City Opera and at la Scala di Milano, La Traviata in Niigata, Japan, the World Premiere of “Marco Polo” from Daniele Zanettovich in Rijeka, Croatia, Così fan tutte at the Vilnius City Opera (Lithuania), Orpheé aux Enfers in Florence Maggio Musicale, Falstaff in San Paolo (Brazil), Golo (Genoveva) in Ostrava, Don Ottavio in Pisa, and Bangkok (Thailand), Alessandro in “Il Re Pastore” in Trieste, Tanzmeister and Brighella in “Ariadne auf Naxos” in Montevideo (Uruguay). Next engagements include a Japanese tour of concerts in March, a new production of Paisiello's “Zenobia in Palmira” at San Carlo Theater in Naples, Il barbiere di Siviglia in Trieste, Pong (Turandot) in Macao.
