“The star of the evening’s performance was undoubtedly the Slovenian tenor Aco Bišćević. He has a high-lying tenor, which he used to great effect in his portrayal of Orphée, and was perfectly suited, both physically and vocally, to the role. His voice possesses a sweet light tone, which glided through the score, and his phrasing of the accompanied recitatives was smooth and accomplished.”
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Aco Bišćević studied voice with Monika Lenz and harpsichord at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.
He made his operatic debut at Teatro alla Scala and has since appeared on opera and concert stages throughout Europe and Asia, including the Salzburg Festival, Handel Festival Halle, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Theater an der Wien, National Theatre Mannheim, Festival della Valle d'Itria, Komische Oper Berlin, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Gluck Festival Bayreuth, Monteverdi Festival Cremona, Prinzregententheater Munich, Trame Sonore Festival Mantua, Bach Festival Lausanne, and Styriarte Graz.
He has collaborated with distinguished conductors including Gianluca Capuano, Reinhard Goebel, Michael Hofstetter, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gérard Korsten, Claudio Abbado, Václav Luks, Ingo Metzmacher, Federico Maria Sardelli, Vittorio Ghielmi, and Jordi Savall.
Bišćević also participated in the recording of Cavalli's Il Xerse at the Festival della Valle d'Itria, released on DVD and CD by Naxos.
Together with Michael Hofstetter and the Baroque Orchestra of the Thüringen Philharmonie, he recorded previously unpublished, highly virtuosic cantatas for high tenor by Carl Heinrich Graun. The resulting album, “A Gentle Tenor”, was nominated for the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Record Critics' Award).
One of the few singers to cultivate historical performance practice as both vocalist and instrumentalist, Bišćević accompanies himself at the piano in his recital programs.