“…he is vocally so vibrant, agile and charismatic on the one hand and so expressively tender on the other…. In his passionate E il sol dell’anima he seduces not only Gilda but the entire audience” Full article

La critique le snobe, mais le jeune Italien se voit déja en star de l'opéra. Et rêve même de devenir le nouveau chanteur de Queen! Full full article in French, please click here

Since racking up rave reviews as the lovesick Rodolfo in Puccini's sold-out La Bohème at the Metropolitan Opera in New York last year, the darkly handsome, wildly flirtatious Italian-born tenor Vittorio Grogolo has been jetting from New York to sold-out performances in Milan and London, recording a thid solo album (this month's Arrivederci), and preparing to make his highly anticipated West Coast operatic debut in Romeo and Juliet, directed by Plácido Domingo, at the L.A.

“Most of my own eyes and ears went with Grigolo, partly because of his sheer energy. This was a rejuvenated Faust whom you could believe in…..but the commitment, strength and vocal mobility that made him last year’s Covent Garden wow in Manon still rang through the house”

It is a few hours before the curtain rises on Puccini’s La Bohème now at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and 33-year-old Vittorio Grigolo, the handsome, increasingly prominent face of international opera can be found resting in a stuffy, decidedly drab dressing room tucked in the basement of Lincoln Center. Making my way through the confounding labyrinth of tunnels before ending up outside his door—assistants are bustling up the corridor, a piano is playing in the distance, somebody is practicing scales, and the air, quite suddenly, smells thickly of an intoxicating cologne.