The Italian countertenor Carlo Vistoli began his singing training in 2007 with William Matteuzzi, studied at the Conservatorio Frescobaldi Ferrara with Sonia Prina and in 2012 made his stage debut in Dido and Aeneas. In 2015 he was selected to join the Académie Le Jardin des Voix under the direction of William Christie, with whom he has worked regularly since. In 2017 he participated in John Eliot Gardiner’s project Monteverdi 450, touring internationally and making his debut at the Salzburg Festival as Ottone in L’incoronazione di Poppea.
In the 2025/26 season he appeared in Shirin Neshat’s new production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at the Teatro Regio di Parma, returned to the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in the title role of Vivaldi’s Tamerlano and toured Europe with the Ensemble Artaserse under Philippe Jaroussky, and with Emőke Baráth, Le Concert d’Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm performing Pergolesi’s Stabat mater. He also made his role debut as Rossini’s Tancredi at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome and his house debut in Giulio Cesare in Egitto at the Zurich Opera House.
Earlier appearances included Pierre Audi’s new production of Alcina under Rinaldo Alessandrini, Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice in Robert Carsen’s production in Rome, Francesco Filidei’s new opera Il nome della rosa under Ingo Metzmacher at La Scala, Milan, his debut as Athamas (Semele) at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Ruggiero in Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso at the Teatro La Fenice, Nerone (L’incoronazione di Poppea) under Jean-Christophe Spinosi at the Berlin State Opera, Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo at the MusikTheater an der Wien and Polinesso (Ariodante) at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. He has also sung Idraspe in Cavalli’s Erismena under Leonardo García Alarcón at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and Ruggiero (Alcina) at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and performed at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and Bayreuth Baroque.
Following recordings with various labels such as Alpha and Erato, his most recent solo CD, Vivaldi: Sacro furore, launches his new collaboration with harmonia mundi.
Carlo Vistoli has won numerous awards, including the Premio Farinelli in Bologna in 2012, first prize at the Renata Tebaldi International Voice Competition in 2013 and the Premio della critica musicale ‘Franco Abbiati’ in 2023.
