American tenor Mark Nicolson possesses a uniquely beautiful lirico spinto voice coupled with a stunning stage presence and an authentic, natural charisma. Mentored by some of opera's most legendary artists, he has developed an extensive repertoire encompassing Italian, French, German, Czech and English roles to which he brings a mastery of diction, style and phrasing.

Mr. Nicolson has sung Cavaradossi in Tosca at the Palacio de Belles Artes in Mexico City, L'Opéra de Québec, the Atlanta Opera and New Zealand's Canterbury Opera. His performances of Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly took him on an eight month tour throughout Great Britain with England’s Opera North and to the Mississippi and Baton Rouge Operas. He portrayed Radamès in Aida with the Orchestra Philharmonique International at Radio France (Paris) and also with Opera Illinois as well as Calaf in Turandot with the Coro Lirico. He sang Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos with New Orleans Opera and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with the Hong Kong Arts Festival and the Dublin Grand Opera.

Mr. Nicolson has to his credit the lead roles of Don José in Carmen with the Festival Cervantino, the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional in Mexico City, and St. Petersburg Opera, Gounod’s Faust with the New Orleans Opera, Central City Opera and the Mercury Theatre in New Zealand, Des Grieux in Manon in Seoul, Korea and Rodolfo in La Bohème in Tampa and Dallas. He also sang Alfredo in La Traviata with Opera Omaha where he returned to sing the arduously difficult role of Pirro in the American stage premiere of Rossini’s Ermione followed by Gernando and Ubaldo in Rossini’s Armida, which he performed at the Minnesota Opera. At the Wolf Trap Opera Mr. Nicolson performed the Male Chorus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia and the Prince in Prokofiev’s L’Amour des Trois Oranges and portrayed Lennie in Of Mice and Men with Opera Grand Rapids.

Mark Nicolson made his Carnegie Hall debut in Mozart's Requiem and was the tenor soloist in Verdi's Requiem with the Philharmonia Orchestra at England's prestigious Chichester Festival. He has performed with the Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Portland, Evansville and Omaha symphonies and the New Haven, Connecticut and New York Choral Societies in works including Händel's Messiah, Beethoven's 9th Symphony and Mahler's 8th Symphony.