Carlo Vistoli

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Carlo Vistoli began his vocal training with William Matteuzzi and Sonia Prina in 2007 and made his stage debut with Dido & Aeneas in 2012. He received several awards in international singing competitions like the «Farinelli Prize» at the 2012 Città di Bologna Singing Competition or the First Prize at the 2013 «Renata Tebaldi» (Baroque Section) in San Marino. Chosen for the 2015 edition of “Le Jardin de Voix”, led by William Christie, with whom he collaborates since then, highlights of his career include Giulio Cesare in Egitto by Handel in Shanghai, Dafne by Caldara in Venice, Agrippina by Handel in Brisbane (for which he receives a Helpmann Award), Erismena by Cavalli in Aix-en-Provence with Leonardo García Alarcón. In 2017, he took part to John Eliot Gardiner’s project Monteverdi450, that toured internationally. More recently, he was involved in productions like Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso at La Fenice in Venice, Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Salzburg Festival, Artaserse by Hasse in Sydney, La Finta pazza by Sacrati in Dijon with Alarcón, Orfeo ed Euridice by Gluck at the Rome Opera with Robert Carsen’s staging, Semele by Handel with Gardiner in Paris, London, Milan (Teatro alla Scala). In 2021 he sang in Rinaldo by Handel in Losanna, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, debuting the title role, in Basel and Madrid, with Andrea Marcon, and he took part to La Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo by Cavalieri at Theater an der Wien (with Antonini and Carsen). Moreover, he sang Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater on tour with Cecilia Bartoli and Gianluca Capuano and he made its debut at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow singing Polinesso in Handel’s Ariodante in David Alden’s production. Highlights of the 2021/22 season are two new productions by Damiano Michieletto, Orfeo ed Euridice at Komische Oper Berlin and Giulio Cesare in Egitto at Thêatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris as Tolomeo, conducted by Philippe Jaroussky, in addition to Xerse by Cavalli at Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca, Ruggiero in Alcina by Handel alongside Cecilia Bartoli in Florence (with Capuano and Michieletto) and, for the first time, Nerone in L’incoronazione di Poppea at Staatsoper Berlin conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi, with whom he also sang the title role of Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso in concert at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in 2023. In the same year, he was at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden in Handel’s Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Emmanuelle Haïm, in Alsace in the theater circuit of the Opéra du Rhin singing in L’incoronazione di Poppea, and he came back to Komische Oper Berlin in Semele. In 2023/2024 season he returned to the Staatsoper Berlin to sing Farnace in Mozart’s Mitridate, he was again Orfeo in Carsen’s production in Valencia; he also sang the two title roles of Rinaldo and Giulio Cesare, the latter alongside Cecilia Bartoli, on European tour and at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, and he made his debut at San Francisco Opera interpreting Arsace in Händel’s Partenope. Furthermore, he made his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper in Giulio Cesare in Egitto and in the season of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, singing Alidoro for the first time in Cesti’s Orontea, and at the Verdi Festival in Parma in Monteverdi’s Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. In 2025 he is back at the Rome Opera, in a new production of Handel’s Alcina directed by Pierre Audi and conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini, and at the Teatro alla Scala – in the new opera Il nome della rosa written by Francesco Filidei, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher with the direction of Michieletto – and he makes his debut at the London Royal Ballet & Opera in Handel’s Semele as Athamas (a show that also sees him involved at the TCE in Paris). He is also protagonist for the first time at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik and at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival. In autumn 2025, he embarks on a European tour, first with Ensemble Artaserse and Philippe Jaroussky, and later with Emmanuelle Haïm, Emőke Baráth, and Le Concert d’Astrée. In January 2026, he will return to the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées to sing for the first time the title role in Vivaldi’s Tamerlano in concert form (with Noally and Les Accents). He will also open the new season at the Teatro Regio di Parma, starring in a new production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice directed by Shirin Neshat and conducted by Fabio Biondi. Among the highlights of the next year are his debut in the title role of Rossini’s Tancredi in a new production at the Opera di Roma conducted by Michele Mariotti and directed by Emma Dante; his first appearance at the Opernhaus Zürich in Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto; his debut at the Rai Auditorium in Turin for the Easter concert with the Rai National Symphony Orchestra, and the return at the Salzburg Festival in concert.

Carlo Vistoli was awarded the Premio “Franco Abbiati” from the Italian music critics (43rd edition) as best singer of 2023. He also won the 2024 “Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Emerging Stars Competition” of the San Francisco Opera.

He recorded for Alpha, Brilliant, Erato, Harmonia Mundi, Ricercar, Soli Deo Gloria and other labels, and his three first solo recitals have been published by Arcana. His last solo CD, “Sacro furore”, is dedicated to sacred works by Vivaldi, and marks his new collaboration with the label Harmonia Mundi.