VINÍCIUS COSTA

Winner of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Best English Song Performance Award at the Wigmore Hall Song Competition, Vinícius Costa, together with his duo partner Pierre Nicolas-Colombat, was one of the 10 semifinalists among more than 120 candidates in the UK’s most prestigious song competition and one of the largest in Europe, marking the beginning of his international visibility at the age of 27 in 2022. Other distinctions include First Prize at the Linus Lerner Brazilian and Latin American Singing Contests and the Special Jury Prize at the IVC Song Competition.

He has appeared on stages such as Carnegie Hall and Aspen Music Tent (USA), Theater Basel, Basel Stadtcasino, Bühne Bern, and Casino Bern (Switzerland), as well as Teatro São Pedro, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, and Sala São Paulo (Brazil).

He has performed under the baton of conductors including Alessandro De Marchi, Nicholas Carter, Hélio Vida, Olga Pavlu, and Giorgio Paronuzzi, with stage direction by Pablo Maritano, Nikolaus Habjan, Marco Štorman, and Benedikt von Peter. His operatic roles include Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Zuniga (Carmen), Fiorello (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), and Rodimarte (Marco Attilio Regolo by Alessandro Scarlatti). As a concert soloist, he has sung works such as Ich Habe Genug and the St. Matthew and St. John Passions, Christmas Oratorio and Magnificat by J.S. Bach, Symphony No. 5, Requiem, Bard, and Nirmanakaya by Philip Glass, as well as Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri.

In the 2024/25 season, Vinícius performed the roles of:

The Duke of Verona in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette

Ceprano in Verdi’s Rigoletto

The Imperial Commissioner in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly

José Tripaldi in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar

In the 2025/26 season, his scheduled roles include:

Pistola in Verdi’s Falstaff

Sprecher in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte

Aye in Philip Glass’s Akhnaten

He began his musical training in 2014 at the Guri Santa Marcelina program with Naraine Sri Hamsa and Paulo Cavalcante. In Brazil, he studied with Maria Lúcia Waldow and Francisco Campos. He graduated in Voice in 2021 and completed his Master’s degree in Performance in 2023 with Dutch baritone Marcel Boone, further specializing in Lied under the guidance of pianist Jan Schultsz at the FHNW Hochschule für Musik Basel. He also studied Early Music at the São Paulo Municipal Music School with Nicolau de Figueiredo and has participated in masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbaender, Ludovic Tézier, Jamie Barton, Margreet Honig, among others. His festival appearances include the Renée Fleming Song Studio (Carnegie Hall) and the Aspen Music Festival in 2022 and 2023.

He is currently a member of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program at LA Opera.