Renato Dolcini's qualities have conquered the greatest international stages – beauty of voice, flawless technical assurance and an oustanding art with words. The Italian baritone’s charisma shines through both on stage and in concert.

Born in Milan, he studied singing with Vincenzo Manno while studying musicology at the University of Pavia, where he graduated with honours.

In 2015, he was selected as a member of William Christie's Jardin des Voix, with which he has performed all over the world, in Europe, the United States and Asia, earning rave reviews from the press. The New York Times wrote: ‘Renato Dolcini fully embodies Orlando's mad scene and would certainly have set the stage alight – if there had been one.’

His career was then launched, with a succession of prestigious engagements in an extremely wide repertoire. Italian opera of the 17th and 18th centuries naturally occupies a central place: Vivaldi's Bajazet and Caldara's Dafne at La Fenice in Venice; Cavalieri's La Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo at the Theater an der Wien (Giovanni Antonini); L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Seneca) at the Salzburg Festival and Angers Nantes Opéra; L'Orfeo (title role) in Monte Carlo and Salzburg; Cavalli's Hipermestra (Danao) in Glyndebourne; Landi's La Morte di Orfeo in Amsterdam.
Renato is a sought-after performer in Händel's works: Radamisto on a major European tour with Il Pomo d'Oro; Giulio Cesare by Händel (role of Curio, Giovanni Antonini again) at La Scala in Milan; Agrippina (Pallante) in Hamburg.

Renato's obvious affinity for the French language is reflected in numerous projects such as Rameau's Platée at Zurich Opera House, Les Indes Galantes at the Grand Théâtre de Genève (with Leonardo García Alarcón) and Lully's Armide at the Drottningholm Opera in Sweden (Francesco Corti).

He is also in demand for later repertoires, such as Haydn's Orlando Paladino (Giovanni Antonini); Le Nozze di Figaro (René Jacobs), Don Giovanni (Simone Toni, Warner Classics recording) and Così fan tutte (Daniel Cohen). Renato has also sung the role of Alidoro in Rossini's La Cenerentola under the baton of Fabio Biondi.

In concert, he also promotes a wide range of musical styles: Monteverdi conducted by John Eliot Gardiner in Tuscany; Händel's La Resurrezione (Fabio Bonizoni, notably in Halle); Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Saint Matthew Passion and Saint John Passion (the latter with William Christie and the Concertgebouw Royal Orchestra); Scarlatti's oratorio Sedecia Re di Gerusalemme (Thibault Noally).

Recent engagements have been prestigious: Rameau's Les Fêtes d'Hébé at the Opéra-Comique in Paris conducted by William Christie, an exhaustive tour celebrating William Christie's 80th birthday, and the title role in Monteverdi's Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria conducted by Diego Fasolis at the Cremona Festival.

For the 2025/2026 season, Renato is taking part in exciting projects, including the role of Farnace in Scarlatti's Mitridate Eupatore at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo (Giulio Prandi conducting and Cecilia Ligorio directing) and that of Bajazet in Vivaldi's Tamerlano on tour with Thibault Noally and Les Accents (Paris, Madrid, Budapest), and a tour of Australia with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.

His extensive discography includes, in particular, the programme Stravaganza d'Amore (characters of Orfeo and Apollo) with Raphaël Pichon and the Pygmalion ensemble, recorded for Harmonia mundi and awarded a Diapason d'Or and a Choc de Classica; Il Martirio di Santa Teodosia by Alessandro Scarlatti with Les Accents (Aparté); Dido and Aeneas by Purcell (role of Aeneas) and Dixit Dominus by Händel with Les Argonautes (two recordings for Aparté).