VITTORIO PRATO
baritone
RECENT AND UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS
- Guglielmo in Mozart's Così fan Tutte, at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège (2025);
- Marcello in La Bohème (2025) and Frank in Le Villi (2024), at the Festival Puccini Torre del Lago;
- Belcore in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore, at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo (2025);
- Graf Danilo in Lehár's Die Lustige Witwe, at the Teatro Politeama Greco di Lecce (2024);
- Giuseppe in Rivoluzione e Nostalgia, a show based on several Verdi's operas, and a belcanto recital at the Royal Theatre of La Monnaie De Munt (2024);
- Figaro in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège (2023);
- Silvio in Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci and Belcore in L'Elisir d'Amore, at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (2023);
- Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen, at the Oper im Steinbruch Festival (2023);
- Conte di Almaviva in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, at the Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla (2022).
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BIOGRAPHY
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A well-known specialist of belcanto repertory, Italian baritone Vittorio Prato has sung the leading roles in operas by Mozart, Rossini and Donizetti, standing out internationally as one of the most interesting singers of his generation. After graduating in piano and harpsicord at the Conservatory of Bologna, he studied singing with Ivo Vinco, Luciano Pavarotti, Dmitry Vdovin and Sherman Lowe.
He attended the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro, where he performed as Don Alvaro in Il viaggio a Reims. He won the Mattia Battistini International Competition and Sacred Music Competition.
Prato has appeared in prestigious opera houses such as Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Opéra national de Lyon, Grand Théatre de Genève, National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Opéra national du Capitole de Toulouse, Théatre des Champs-Elysées, Opéra Comique de Paris, Royal Theatre of La Monnaie De Munt, Musiktheater an der Wien, Opéra de Lausanne, Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Staatsoper Hamburg, Barbican in London, Opéra national de Bordeaux, Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla, Metropolitan Theater in Tokyo, Ópera Nacional de Chile, Palau de les Arts de Valencia, Theater Basel, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro del Maggio Musicale di Firenze, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari and Teatro Verdi di Trieste. Vittorio has also performed in the prestigious festivals of Wexford, Montpellier, Beaune, St. Margarethen, Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Martina Franca, Bad Kissingen and Rossini Opera Festival in Bad Wildbad and Pesaro.
In the 2024/25 season, Vittorio sang the roles of Belcore in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo; Graf Danilo in Lehár’s Die Lustige Witwe, at the Teatro Polietama Greco di Lecce; and Frank in Puccini’s Le Villi, at the Festival Puccini Torre del Lago 2024.
Highligts of Vittorio Prato’s 2023/24 season include a belcanto recital and the role of Giuseppe in Rivoluzione e Nostalgia, a show composed by 16 Verdi’s operas, wrote and staged by Krystian Lada, at the Royal Theatre of La Monnaie De Munt; Figaro in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège; and Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen, at the St. Margareten’s festival Oper im Steinbruch.
In the season 2022/23, he sang Silvio in Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci and Belcore, at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; Conte Almaviva in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, at the Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla; the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, at the Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti; and Comte de Nevers in Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, at La Monnaie.
He has performed with great conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Daniel Oren, Fabio Luisi, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Donato Renzetti, Giampaolo Bisanti, and he has worked with directors such as Pierluigi Pizzi, Yannis Kokkos, Antonio Latella and Stefano Vizioli. In the ancient repertoire, he collaborated with William Christie, Christophe Rousset, Christoper Hogwood, Ottavio Dantone, Alan Curtis, Andrea Marcon and Diego Fasolis.
His vast repertory spans from Monteverdi to 20th century’s composers, also including Giorgio Germont in Verdi’s La Traviata, the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Lescaut in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, Ernesto in Bellini’s Il Pirata, Marcello in Puccini’s La Bohème, Alfonso in Donizetti’s La Favorita, Dandini in Rossini’s La Cenerentola, Valentin in Gounod’s Faust, Malatesta in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Conte in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan Tutte, Antonio in Donizetti’s Linda di Chamounix, Albert in Massenet’s Werther, Prosdocimo in Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia, Filippo in Bellini’s Bianca e Fernando, Max in Donizetti’s Betly, Corrado in Mercadante’s I Briganti, Marziano in Pergolesi’s Salustia, the title role in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Osman in Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes, Aeneas in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Matusio in Gluck’s Demofonte, Curio in Händel’s Giulio Cesare, Conte Gil in Wolf-Ferrari’s Il Segreto di Susanna, Massimo in Ezio and the title role in Imeneo, both by Händel, and solo in Montsalvatge’s Una Voce in Off.
His concert repertory include Orff’s Carmina Burana, Fauré’s Requiem, Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Haydn’s Il Ritorno di Tobia, Rossini’s Le Nozze di Teti e Peleo and Schumann’s Der Rose Pilgerfahrt, Mendelssohn's Die Erste Walpurgisnacht and Händel’s Israel in Egypt.
Vittorio Prato’s discography includes “Il Bravo - Belcanto arias for Tamburini” and “Tosti, Songs from far away” (CD Illiria), Don Giovanni’s Mozart (Classic Voice), Donizetti’s Linda di Chamounix (CD/DVD Dynamic), Gluck’s Demofonte (CD Brilliant), Pergolesi’s Salustia (DVD Arthaus Musik), Mercadante’s“I Briganti and Bellini’s Bianca e Fernando” (CD Naxos), Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes (DVD Alpha) and Carafa’s I Due Figaro (DVD Bongiovanni).
Among his next engagements, he will sing Marcello in La Bohème, at the Festival Puccini Torre del Lago 2025, and Guglielmo in Così fan Tutte, at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège.