Vittorio Grigolo

VITTORIO GRIGOLO Italy announces a formidable return to the opera stage with the young Italian tenor, Vittorio Grigolo. His triumphant debut this June at London's Royal Opera House Covent Garden, performing in a new production of Manon by Massenet alongside Anna Netrebko, caused a sensation amongst audience and music critics alike: "But the evening really belongs to her (Anna Netrebko's) Des Grieux, Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo [...] making the most sensational debut to be heard at Covent Garden for some time. He's got everything the role demands - a voice that flows, terrific looks, an instinctive sense of theatre". The Guardian Born in Arezzo,Tuscany and raised in Rome, Vittorio was only four when he discovered his passion for music; a few years later he was made a soloist in the Sistine Chapel choir. Having made his debut as the Shepherd in Tosca at the age of thirteen, he began his vocal training in earnest, and at twenty-three became the youngest tenor ever to perform at La Scala, Milan. Within a few years, he was appearing at all the world's most prestigious opera houses, under the baton of Riccardo Chailly, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Myung-Whun Chung, Daniel Oren and Antonio Pappano, with a repertoire that includes Mozart, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Gounod, Massenet, Offenbach, Bernstein and the sacred works of Rossini. As one of the leading tenors of his generation, he now performs worldwide, and is renowned for his star quality as both a singer and actor: Vittorio's exceptional dramatic and vocal talents have been widely praised by the world's press. With a gold and platinum-selling solo album, a Grammy-nominated recording of Bernstein's West Side Story and his upcoming album "The Italian Tenor" released this Fall on Sony Classical,...