Riccardo Romeo was born in Augsburg to Italian parents and grew up bilingual. He studied singing at the HfMDK Frankfurt am Main with Professor Berthold Possemeyer and at the CNSM in Paris, France, in the class of Yves Sotin. During the 2024/25 season, he has been part of the soloist ensemble for the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf.
In his youth, he sang in various choirs of the Albert Greiner Sing- und Musikschule in Ausburg, and the children’s and youth choir of the Augsburg Theatre. He participated as a soloist in several productions, gaining his first stage experiences, including Puccini’s Tosco in the role of the Little Shepherd, and with Komödie Augsburg in various children’s operas.
During his studies, he performed at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, the Staatstheater Darmstadt, and the Frankfurt Opera. In the summer of 2018, Riccardo performed as Monostatos in the production of The Magic Flute at Les Escales Lyriques de l’Île d’Yeu in France. In the 2018/19 season, he also sang as Basilio (The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart) at the Stadttheater Gießen, as Ecclitico (Il mondo della luna, Haydn) in the annual production of the CNSM in Paris, and as Prince Ramiro (La Cenerentola, Isouard) at the Opéra de Saint-Étienne. In the 2019/20 season, he was engaged as Gastone (La Traviata, Verdi) at the Zénith d’Orléans and as Soldato 2/Liberto in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.
In the 2020/21 season, he was a member of the ensemble of the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landestheater, and from 2021 to 2024, he was a soloist at the Staatsoperette Dresden, thus expanding his repertoire in the field of operetta and classical music comedy. His roles included Sigismund Sülzheimer (Im Weißen Rössl, Benatzky), Juan Damigo (Clivia, Nico Dostal), and Tobias Ragg (Sweeney Todd, Sondheim).
Riccardo has already participated in several masterclasses with Mireille Alcantara, Enza Ferrari, Helmut Deutsch, Axel Bauni, William Christie, and Véronique Gens, among many others. He is also a laureate of the Royaumont Foundation.