Italian baritone Vittorio Vitelli was born in Ascoli Piceno, where he made his debut at a very young age in the role of Enrico in Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lamermoor. In 1996, having won Placido Domingo’s Operalia, he embarks on an international career singing in Opera houses and Festivals such as: La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Maggio Musicale in Florence, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Opéra de Nice, Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Real in Madrid, Washington National Opera, Festival de Santander, Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca, Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata.

            His wide repertoire includes many verismoroles, but focuses also on leading Verdi roles such as the title roles in Rigoletto, Simone Boccanegraand Macbethand the leading baritone roles in Un ballo in maschera, Falstaff, Otello, Aida, Don Carlo, La forza del destino and Il Trovatore.

       In 2006 he made his debut at La Scala as Amonasro in Verdi's Aidafor the opening of the season conducted by Riccardo Chailly and directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

       He has worked with some of the most distinguished conductors and directors today, such as: Claudio Abbado, Gary Bertini, Daniel Oren, Carlo Rizzi, Zubin Metha, Nello Santi, Daniele Gatti, Bruno Bartoletti, Marco Armiliato, Giuliano Carella, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Graham Vick, Hugo De Ana, Lamberto Puggelli, Liliana Cavani, Roberto De Simone, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Gilbert Deflo.

        His discography includes: Verdi's Simon Boccanegra (first edition 1857) for Dynamic conducted by Renato Palumbo, Giordano's Siberia for Dynamic, Puccini's Turandot on cd and dvd RCA conducted by Zubin Metha, Verdi's Aida conducted by Daniel Oren on dvd from Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Bellini's I Puritani conducted by Giuliano Carella from the Opéra Royale de Wallonie (dvd), Verdi's La Traviata conducted by Carlo Rizzi from Teatro Regio di Parma, Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci conducted by Bruno Bartoletti from Carlo Felice in Genova.

          His recent engagements include: Otello (Jago) at the Wroclaw Festival, Macbeth in Pisa, Gdansk and Valladolid, Adriana Lecouvreur at Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Manon Lescaut at the Leipzig Oper, Il Trovatore at the Liceu in Barcelona, Attila at the Opéra de Marseille, Macbethin Valladolid, Traviata in Hamburg, Aida (Amonasro) at the Bregenzer Festspiele, Ernani at the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, Cavalleria rusticana (Alfio) and Pagliacci (Tonio) at the Liceu in Barcelona.

         His future engagements include: Macbeth in Gdansk and Toulon, Il Trovatore (Conte di Luna) at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, Poliuto (Severo) at the Opéra de Marseille, Tosca (Scarpia) in a new production at the Liceu in Barcelona.