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 received 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 and 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 were 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, at the Opéra du Rhin (Strasbourg) singing in ‘L’incoronazione di Poppea’, and returned 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 Handel’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 Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris). He will also be for the first time at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik and at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, and at the beginning of 2026 he will be back at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées to sing in Vivaldi’s ‘Tamerlano’ (title role debut).
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 latest solo CD, ‘Sacro furore’, is dedicated to sacred works by Vivaldi, and marks his new collaboration with the label Harmonia Mundi.