ARTIST

ARTIST

Leon Košavić(Bariton)

The young Croatian baritone Leon Kosavic completed his master's degree at the Music Academy in Zagreb in the singing class of Giorgio Surian, which lead to a membership of the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel program under the direction of José van Dam.

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The upcoming season sees Leon Košavić make several significant role and house debuts, including Wolfram in Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the Tokyo Spring Festival and Mercutio in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette in his house debut at the Opéra national de Paris. He returns to his home theatre in Zagreb as Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen and performs Fauré’s Requiem with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
Leon Košavić made his professional debut in 2011 as Papageno at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, where he subsequently performed the roles of Masetto, Moralès and Malatesta. His early career saw success in several prestigious vocal competitions, earning recognition at the Emmerich Smola Förderpreis, the Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition, and the Stanisław Moniuszko International Singing Competition.
Since then he has appeared at leading opera houses across Europe, with roles including Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Salzburger Festspiele, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Ping in Turandot and Masetto in Don Giovanni at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Harl Der Freischütz at Opernhaus Zürich; Ping in Turandot at La Monnaie in Brussels; Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette and Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus at Theater an der Wien; Don Giovanni at the Stuttgart State Opera; Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte in Liège; La Juive, Carmen and Ariadne auf Naxos in Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; Masetto in Don Giovanni in Opéra de Lausanne, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia in Opéra national du Rhin; Malatesta Don Pasquale in The Finnish National Opera; Don Giovanni under the baton of Riccardo Muti at the Ravenna Festival and Tokyo Spring Festival; and Melot in Tristan und Isolde at the Dutch National Opera.
He was part of the ensemble at Theater St. Gallen, where he performed Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) and Germont (La traviata).
Alongside his operatic engagements, Kosavic maintains an active concert career. His collaborations with conductor Nathalie Stutzmann have taken him to the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and to concert venues in Liverpool, São Paulo, Bergen, Paris, London and Atlanta. He has also performed with the European Union Youth Orchestra at the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Grafenegg Festival.

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