Marko Mimica was born in 1987, in Split, Croatia. He graduated from the Josip Hatze Music High School in Split, majoring in trumpet. In June 2010 he graduated from the Music Academy in Zagreb as vocal student in the classes of Prof. Martina Zadro and Prof. Gerhard Zeller (Lied and Oratorium), while attending private lessons with Dunja Vejzovic and Vitomir Marof.

During the 2011-12 season Mr. Mimica joins the roster of the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Franz Josef Weisweiler Scholarship holder. His roles in Berlin this season include Don Basilio in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Raimondo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Ferrando in Verdi’s Il Trovatore and the title role in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. In the 2012-13 seasson he becomes a permanent member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

After his debut with the Croatian National Theatres in Zagreb and Rijeka as Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in 2008, Mr. Mimica has returned there in many leading roles in Verdi operas, such as Ferrando in Il Trovatore, Monterone in Rigoletto, Pistola in Falstaff, Il Gran Sacerdote in Nabucco, and Padre Guardiano and Marchese di Calatrava in La Forza del destino. He also sang Kochubey in Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa, Oroveso in Bellini’s Norma (director Philipp Himmelmann and conductor Antonello Allemandi), Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Dandini in Rossini’s La Cenerentola, and Colline in Puccini’s La Boheme.

In 2007 Mr. Mimica won the 1st prize at the State Competition in Dubrovnik and in summer 2011 took part in the Young Singers Project of the Salzburg Festival.