Praised for his “steely power” (Voix des Arts) and “resonant bass” (Opera News), bass-baritone Leo Radosavljevic is a presence on the operatic stage. This season, Mr. Radosavljevic performed Peter Maxwell Davies’s tour de force and one man show, 8 Songs for a Mad King at the Meredith Wilson theater at Lincoln Center, as part of Carnegie Hall’s Dancing on the Precepice: The fall of the Weimar Republic festival. He also performed the roles of Janitor, Policeman, and 2nd Son in Shostakovich’s The Nose with Chicago Opera Theater, and covered the roles of Narrator and Orpheus in Jason and the Argonauts with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Last summer, he made his Boston Symphony Orchestra solo debut as a Vassal in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung. He has also been heard at Opera Colorado as Bonze (Madama Butterfly), The New Philharmonic as Don Alfonso (Così fan Tutte), Opera Theater of Saint Louis as Manders (Regina), Teatro Nuovo as Orbazzano (Tancredi), the Savannah Voice Festival as Colline (La Bohème), and covered the role of the King in Aida with Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

On the concert stage, he has appeared as soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Metropolis Symphony, The Orchestra Now, New Juilliard Ensemble, and Juilliard415, with whom he performed Telemann’s rarely heard Die Tageszeiten to high acclaim from The New York Times, as well as made a studio recording in Vancouver with the Canadian Broadcasting Company. He has also appeared regularly as recitalist at the Ravinia Festival, where he was twice a Steans fellow, and at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Mr. Radosavljevic was the 3rd Prize winner of the 8th Klaudia Taev Competition in Estonia, Grand Prize winner of the 2017 Bel Canto Competition, was a Regional Finalist in the 2020 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a Finalist at the 18th Schumann composition in Zwickau, and the recipient of the Marcella Kochańska Sembrich Award from the American Council for Polish Culture. This season, Mr. Radosavljevic received the Esther Korshin award from the Oratorio Society of New York, and was one of this year’s grant winners at the 31st annual New York Wagner Society competition last May.

Mr. Radosavljevic received his bachelors and masters of music degrees from The Juilliard School.