The baritone Vito Priante made his operatic debut in 2002 in Pergolesi’s La serva padrona in Florence. Early career highlights included Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) at La Scala, Milan, Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Idreno (Armida) at the Salzburg Festival, Silvano (La Calisto), Leone (Tamerlano) and King of Scotland (Ariodante) at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
In 2008 he was awarded the Premio Abbiati for his interpretation of the title role of Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero at La Scala.
His performances in Mozart’s Da Ponte operas have taken him to Milan, Tokyo, Madrid, Glyndebourne, Lyon, Bologna, Berlin, Rome and Salzburg. A renowned Rossini interpreter, he has sung Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) in Toronto, Florence, Muscat, Turin, London and Rome, Dandini (La Cenerentola) in Vienna, Los Angeles, Munich, Muscat, Naples, Chicago, Rome, Montreal and Paris, Prosdocimo (Il turco in Italia) in Munich and Amsterdam and Filippo (La gazzetta) and Il Califfo (Adina) at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. He has also sung Escamillo (Carmen) in London, Dresden, Venice, Turin and Milan, the four villains (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) in Madrid and Tel Aviv, Nick Shadow (The Rake’s Progress) in Florence, Duke of Nottingham (Roberto Devereux), Alphonse XI (La Favorite) and Ford (Falstaff) in Munich, Lord Cecil (Maria Stuarda) in Barcelona, Alphonse XI in Florence, Seid (Il corsaro) in Valencia and Giorgio Germont (La traviata) at the Opéra national du Rhin.
Recent engagements have included Leporello (Don Giovanni) at the Salzburg Festival, the Teatro Regio in Parma and the Caracalla Festival in Rome, Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Count Almaviva at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Olivier (Capriccio) in Munich, Dandini at the Paris Opéra, Henri (Lucie de Lammermoor) at the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo, Don Pizarro (Fidelio) at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari and Beaupertuis in Nino Rota’s Il cappello di paglia di Firenze at La Scala.
He has worked with conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Ivor Bolton, Antonio Pappano, Daniele Gatti, Teodor Currentzis, James Conlon, Fabio Luisi, Myung-Whun Chung, Daniel Oren, Jesús López Cobos, Daniel Barenboim, Jeffrey Tate, Antonello Manacorda, Daniel Harding and Marc Minkowski.
In the 2025/26 season Vito Priante has appeared in the title role of Verdi’s Macbeth at the Verdi Festival in Parma, as Lusignano (Caterina Cornaro) at the Donizetti Opera Festival, as Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Opéra de Marseille and in the title role of Don Giovanni at the New National Theatre in Tokyo.
