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Danish bass Nicolai Ellsberg’s rich sonorous voice has been described as having sonic power and his performance as Oroveso as “a beauty of musical line and feeling”.

This upcoming season he will perform as Masetto in Don Giovanniat Malmö Opera, Sarastro/der Sprecher in The Magic Fluteat Royal Danish Opera and at Opera de Rouen as Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni. In addition, he will make his debut as König Marke in Tristan und Isolde at Opera de Rouen.

In the 2022/2023 season heperformed the role of Sarastro in The Magic Flute at Opera National du Rhin as well as the Johannes Passion with Aalborg Symphony Orchestra and Beethoven IX with the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra. He made his debut in the role of Oroveso in Normaat the Opera de Lausanne. In addition, he celebrated his Japan debut in the role of Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni at Hyōgo Performing Arts Center.

In 2021 Elsberg participated in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition representing Denmarkas one of the sixteen singers chosen from a record high number of applicants. After joining the soloists’ ensemble at The Royal Danish Opera in 2020, in the 2021/2022 season Nicolai sang Colline in La Bohème and Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni as well as Doctor and Newspaper Clerk in The Nose by Shostakovich and the basspart in both Mozart’s and Verdi’s Requiem with the Copenhagen Philharmonic. In that same year he received three talent prizes from his home country: The Copenhagen Opera Festival Talent Prize, The Léonie Sonning Talent Prize and The Queen Ingrid Honorary Grant.

Previous seasons’ highlights are his performances of Plutone inL’Orfeo and Watchmanas well as Masquerade Master in Carl Nielsen’s opera, Masquerade, at the Royal Danish Opera. He took part in the Vocal Residency at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence led by Edith Wiens and sang the role of Il Commendatore in a new interpretation of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at The Copenhagen Opera Festival, where he also sang Colline.

Early in his career he caught the attention of contemporary composers Karsten Fundal and Rasmus Zwicki, who have written respectively an opera and an oratorio specifically for his rare Lyricher/Dramaticher Seriöser Bass. In 2016, holding a Bachelor in contemporary music from The Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, Elsberg started studying classical singing at The Royal Danish Academy of Music with the renowned Susanna Eken as his voice teacher.

The future holds a number of role debuts, among these are Fasolt, Hunding and Hagen in Der Ring des Nibelungen as well as Ramfis in Aida.

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