Born in Arco (Trento) Nicola Ulivieri graduated in 1992 from the Conservatorio “Claudio Monteverdi” in Bolzano. In 1993 sang in the opera I Quattro Rusteghi by Wolf-Ferrari organized by Aslico and in 1995 he won the competition “Adriano Belli” at the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto. In 1996 won the “Musica Riva Prize” and in 1997 the television prize “Vincerò”.
From his professional debut in 1995 when he interpreted the title role in Nino Rota’s opera La notte di un nevrastenico at the Teatro Rendano in Cosenza, he sang in several Italian theaters and festivals: Teatro alla Scala of Milan, Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa, Teatro Comunale of Bologna, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Regio di Torino, Rossini Opera Festival, Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Accademy of Santa Cecilia in Rome, Teatro Valli of Reggio Emilia, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Teatro Comunale di Modena, Teatro Fenice di Venezia, Teatro San Carlo of Naples, Teatro Olimpico of Vicenza, Teatro Lirico of Cagliari, Teatro Filarmonico of Verona.
He sang at Munchener Kammerorchester, Festival of Salzburg, Graz Opera, Theater an der Wien, Hamburgerische Staatsoper, Aix-en-provence Festival, Lyon, Tokyo, Milan, Bruxelles, Philharmonie in Münich, Musical Spring of Lugano, Edimburgh Festival, Oporto, Köln, Vichy, Strasbourg Festival, Las Palmas, Festival di Wexford, Konzerthaus di Vienna, Dresden Festival, Paris Radio France, Festival Radio France et Montpellier, Welsh National Opera, Festival Mozart of La Coruña, Royal Philharmonic, Liceo of Barcelona, Festival of Canarias, El Escorial of Madrid, Tenerife, Las Palmas.
He sang under the batons of Claudio Abbado, Lu Jia, Daniele Gatti, Daniel Harding, Alain Lombard, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Carlo Rizzi, Jordi Savall, Alberto Zedda, Jonathan Web, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Victor Pablo Perez, Philippe Jordan, Jesùs Lopez Cobos, Andras Schiff, Gianandrea Noseda, Marcello Viotti, Fabio Luisi, Bruno Campanella, Michele Mariotti, Nikolaus Harnancourt and Zubin Mehta.
In 2006 he won the “Abbiati Prize” from the Italian critics for his interpretations of Mozart’s operas. Next engagements include Don Giovanni at La Scala, Minnesota, Lisbon and Avenches Festival, Boheme at Regio of Turin, Il viaggio a Reims at Santa Cecilia, Puritani at Real of Madrid and in Tokyo, Midnight’s summer dream and The magic flute in Bari.
He performed at Stresa Festival in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008.