Krešimir Špicer was born in Slavonski Brod, Croatia. He took his first singing lessons at the Music academy of Zagreb. In 1994 he came to The Netherlands and went on to study at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam with Dutch mezzo-soprano Cora Canne Meijer. 1997 he won first prize in the National Competition for Young singers of the Netherlands and in 1999 he won four of five prizes in Vriendenkrans, Competition for Young Musicians organised by Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
His international breakthrough took place at the Aix-en-Provence Festival 2000 with an outstanding Ulisse in Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria under William Christie. The success of this production resulted in a big tour to Lausanne, Bordeaux, Paris, London, New York and Vienna (Wiener Festwochen) as well as in a much acclaimed DVD recording. With René Jacobs he reappeared as Ulisse in Berlin, in Geneva with A. Cremonesi as well as at the Frankfurt Opera under P. Carigniani.
Future plans engagements include: Enea in Cavalli's La Didone with W. Christie in Caen, Luxembourg and Paris, Joabel in Charpentier's David et Jonathas with W. Christie /A. Homoki in Aix-en-Provence, Edinburgh Festival, Paris, Caen and New York, A child of our time in Strasbourg, Max in Der Freischütz in Toronto, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus in Zagreb.
He makes his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.