Vittorio Prato © Matilde Fasso
Vittorio Prato © Matilde Fasso

Soloist

Vittorio Prato

Vittorio Prato was born in Lecce/Italy and initially studied piano and harpsichord before starting to study singing under Ivo Vinco and Luciano Pavarotti and, currently, Sherman Lowe. In 2004 he attended the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro, where he interpreted Don Alvaro (»Il viaggio a Reims«); following this, he was invited to the Rossini Opera Festival where he could be seen in »Il barbiere di Siviglia«, »La gazza ladra« and »Le nozze di Teti e Peleo«.

Numerous guest engagements have taken him as Figaro (»Il barbiere di Siviglia«) to the Berlin State Opera and to Toulouse, Trieste and Bari, as Belcore (»L’elisir d’amore«) to Dijon, as Guglielmo (»Così fan tutte«) to Lyon, as the Count (»Le nozze di Figaro«) to Sassari, as Albert (»Werther«) to Jesi, as Dr. Malatesta (»Don Pasquale«) to Verona and Lecce, in the title role of Monteverdi's »L’Orfeo« to Lyon and to the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona, as Slook (»La cambiale di matrimonio«) and as Ramiro (»Maria Padilla«) to Wexford, as Cecil (»Maria Stuarda«) to Florence, as Osman (»Les Indes galantes«) to Toulouse and Bordeaux, as Massimo (»Ezio«) to Montpellier, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris and Vienna's Theater an der Wien, in the title role of Handel's »Imeneo« to London's Barbican Centre and in Wolf-Ferrari's »Il segreto di Susanna« to the Opéra Comique in Paris and to Luxembourg. During this time, he worked with such conductors as Riccardo Muti, Daniele Gatti, Vladimir Jurowski, Gianluigi Gelmetti and Donato Renzetti and directors such as Adrian Noble, Luca Ronconi, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Antonio Latella and Damiano Michieletto.

Vittorio Prato is also a very active performer in concerts and oratorios; his repertoire in this area includes George Frederick Handel's »Israel in Egypt«, Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Joseph Haydn's »Il ritorno di Tobia«, Robert Schumann's »Der Rose Pilgerfahrt« and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's »Die erste Walpurgisnacht«.