The Romanian baritone Bogdan Baciu studied with Marius Vlad Budoiu at the “Gheorghe Dima” Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca. He won numerous prizes in national and international competitions, including the 3rd prize in 2008 at the Romanian National Lied Competition and in 2010 the 3rd prize at the prestigious “Hariclea Darclée” International Singing Competition. During his university studies and in the Düsseldorf opera studio, he attended master classes with Mariana Nicolesco, Deborah Polaski, David Cyrus, and Thomas Allen. He collaborated with some of the world’s greatest conductors, including Valery Gergiev, Riccardo Frizza, Stefan Soltesz, Axel Kober, Antonino Fogliani, David Crescenzi, Donald Runnicles, Omer Meir Wellber, Kent Nagano, Asher Fisch, John Fiore and others. His repertoire includes roles such as Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Don Giovanni, Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Dottore Malatesta (Don Pasquale), Marcello (La Bohème), Silvio (I Pagliacci), Escamillo (Carmen), Ping (Turandot), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Harlequin (Ariadne auf Naxos) or Heerrufer (Löhengrin). The 2021-2022 season finds him singing Escamillo (Carmen) at Teatro Massimo Palermo, Marcello (La Boheme) at Semperoper Dresden, Der Geisterbote (Die Frau ohne Schatten) at Bayerische Staatsoper Münich as well as his debut as Germont (La Traviata) in Düsseldorf and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In November 2022, he made his long-awaited debut at the Royal Opera House London as Marcello in La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini.