Nigel David Rogers was born on 12 March 1935 in Wellington, Shropshire, England.

Rogers is an English tenor, conductor and teacher. He studied at King’s College, Cambridge from 1953-1956, in Rome in 1957 and in Milan from 1958-1959, and with Gerhard Hüsch at the Munich Hochschule für Musik (1959-1964).

From 1978 he was a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London.

In 1979 he founded the vocal ensemble Chiaroscuro for the performance of Italian music.