Luciano Batinić

He was born in Split (Croatia) in 1977. He learned playing trumpet as a child at Makarska and continued at the music secondary school Josip Hatze in Split. He started studying singing with Noni Žunec in Zagreb, continued at the Music School Vatroslav Lisinski' with Bojan Pogrmilović improving his vocal technique with Vitomir Marof. He is also a graduated in Stomatology from the Zagreb School of Dental Medicine. He made his professional debut at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb as Pimen in Boris Godunov in 2002 with Paata Burchuladze, in the role title. In 2002-2003 he was engaged as an opera soloist by the National Theatre of Zagreb, where he regularly sang lead roles in the bass repertoire ranging from Mozart to the Italian belcanto repertoire in general, the Verdian roles and thos