MARCO_SACCARDIN

Born in Rovigo in 1990, he graduated with honors and distinction in Guitar and Lute performance. In 2009, he joined the Polifonico Città di Rovigo choir, where, under the guidance of Marco Scavazza, he developed a particular interest in Renaissance and Baroque vocal repertoire. He subsequently furthered his operatic training with Andrea Zese.

He began his professional career as a chorister with prestigious ensembles including the Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera Italiana, Il Canto di Orfeo, Gächinger Kantorei, and Capella Reial de Catalunya. With these ensembles, he has participated in major opera and concert productions at leading European venues, including Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Opéra-Comique in Paris, and the Salzburger Festspielhaus.

In 2023, he was awarded first prize at the Cavalli-Monteverdi Competition and was subsequently selected for the title role in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, presented at the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona in June 2024 to great acclaim from audiences and critics. His recent engagements include the bass solo part in Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion at BOZAR Brussels under Maxim Emelyanychev in March 2026, followed in summer 2026 by Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Palau de la Música de València and Mercurio in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Drottningholm Palace Theatre under Francesco Corti.

Since 2017, he has also performed while accompanying himself on the theorbo, drawing on the traditions of early seventeenth-century Italian music and exploring the close relationship between vocal expression and instrumental accompaniment.