Swiss tenor Emiliano Gonzalez Toro was born in Geneva in 1976, and is a master of Italian Renaissance works. Born into a family of Chilean refugees who had settled in Romania and then Switzerland, he was stateless before acquiring Swiss nationality at the age of eighteen. Enrolled in a choir from the age of eight, he also studied the oboe before devoting himself to opera singing. After his debut with the Ensemble vocal de Lausanne conducted by Michel Corboz, the young tenor trained in the great scores of the sacred repertoire and made his operatic debut with Christophe Rousset, who engaged him in several productions with his ensemble Les Talens Lyriques. He took part in recordings of Lully's operas Phaëton, Armide and Alceste, before founding his own ensemble, I Gemelli, in 2018. Under his direction, the ensemble will record two albums devoted to Monteverdi, Orfeo (2020) and Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (2024), as well as the recitals Cozzolani: Vespro (2019), Soleil Noir (2020) and A Room of Mirrors (2022). In addition, the critically acclaimed tenor collaborates with Ottavio Dantone and l'Accademia Bizantina, Thibault Noally and Les Accents, as well as Raphaël Pichon and l'ensemble Pygmalion in Bach: Matthäus-Passion (2022) and Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (2023).
