Carlo Vistoli is an Italian countertenor and alto born in Lugo on August 13, 1987. Trained on guitar and piano, he began studying opera singing in 2007 with William Matteuzzi and Sonia Prina. In 2015, following several awards in competitions, he joined William Christie's Jardin des Voix des Arts Florissants and took part in leading productions at La Fenice in Venice and the Teatro Regio in Turin. In 2017, John Eliot Gardiner engaged him for the Monteverdi 450 tour, where he sang throughout the world in The Coronation of Poppea. Since then, Vistoli has multiplied his stage appearances, mainly in Baroque productions, at the Salzburg and Aix-en-Provence festivals as well as in the greatest opera halls in Rome, Berlin, Vienna, Brussels and Paris. Under recording contract with Arcana, he has produced the conceptual recitals Arias for Nicolino (2017), a tribute to Handel's fetish singer Nicolo Grimaldi, then Amor Tiranno: Broken-Hearted Lovers in Seventeenth Century-Venice (2020), Officina Romana: A Wonder Lab at the Dawn of the 18th Century (2021) and Mozart in Milan: Sacred Music Around the Exsultate, Jubilate (2023). He also collaborates on recordings of operas or other works by Mysliveček, Laurenzi, Jommelli, Cavalli or Handel. In 2024, he devoted a recital to Vivaldi, Sacro Furore - Stabat Mater - Nisi Dominus - Concerti, recorded with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin for Harmonia Mundi.
