Born in Tokyo, Yasuharu Nakajima graduated from the Arts Univeristy of Tokyo in 2000. He was chosen in 2001, as the first Japanese singer in the history, at the Academy of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
His opera debut took place in one of the most important theatres of the world, on stage of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, in the role of Riccardo in Oberto. The enourmes succes permitted him to return quite often in this theatre: In 2003 he was Ein Sänger in Rosenkavalier, Rodolfo in Bohème, Ugo in Ugo, conte di Parigi and Amenophis in Moise et Pharaon (the production of the 2003/04 season’s inauguration with Maestro Riccardo Muti ).
He triumphed also at the Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova in Oberto and Nabucco (production which was recorded for Dynamic-CD and DVD), at Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo in Ugo conte di Parigi (production which was recorded for Dynamic-CD), at Teatro La Fenice di Venezia in the role of Nadir in Pêcheurs de perles (production which was recorded for Dynamic-CD and DVD), at the Philharmonie im Gasteig in Munich in Pêcheurs de perles, at the Teatro Regio di Parma in La damnation de Faust, at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro in the role of Libenskof in Il Viaggio a Reims, at Canadian Opera Campany and at Boston Lilic Opera in the role of Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor i, at the Oper Frankfurt in Il Viaggio a Reims and at the Teatro delle Muse di Ancona in La Boheme.
In the season 2005/2006/2007 he had enormous success in Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, at Michigan Opera in Detroit, at Tokyo in a tour of the Teatro Sperimentale di Spoleto.
(November, 2007)