Born in Naples, Vito Priante graduated in 2003 from the Oriental Institute at Naples University with a Major in French and German Literature. 

 In 2002 he made his professional debut in Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona, under the musical direction of Arnold Bosman at  Florence’s Teatro Goldoni, presented by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and has since gone on to sing on major international stages.  Having been highly acclaimed for his performances in the Baroque and Classical repertoire, he is now moving into Belcanto roles.  

In 2008 he was awarded the XXVIII Franco Abbiati Prize for his interpretation of the title role in  Dallapiccola’s Il Prigioniero at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala conducted by Daniel Harding and  directed by Peter Stein. 

Recent highlights include performances as Figaro at the Glyndebourne Festival’s and in Venice, the title role in Dallapiccola’s Il Prigioniero at Madrid’s Teatro Real, Dandini in La Cenerentola in both Vienna and Los Angeles. In the last few seasons he also debuted at the Maggio Musicale in Florence as Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, at Berlin’s Staatsoper in Schiller in Le Nozze di Figaro conducted by Daniel Barenboim and as the poet Prosdocimo in Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia at the Nederlandse Opera.   Vito has appeared as Il Dissoluto in Corghi’s Il Dissoluto assolto at Teatro alla Scala, Leone in Handel’s Tamerlano at the Liceu in Barcelona, Figaro in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro  at the Théätre des Champs Elysées in Paris led by Marc Minkowsky, at the Salzburg Festival, and La Fenice in Venice where he also performed Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Silvio in I Pagliacci and Publio in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito have taken him to Salerno and Lyon, respectively.  

In demand as a concert artist, he has performed with Riccardo Muti in Jommelli’s oratorio Betulia Liberata, Handel’s Messiah and in Mozart’s Requiem at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, in Haydn’s Stabat Mater conducted by Ivor Bolton at the Salzburg Festival and in Armida with Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw.

The summer of 2013 sees Vito reprise the role of Dandini in the Vienna Staatsoper production of La Cenerentola, take on the role of Belcore in L’Elisir d’amore in Torino and Lescaut in a concert performance of Manon with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. 

 A highlight of Vito’s 2013-2014 season is his debut in the role of Escamillo in the ROH Covent Garden production of Carmen. He also appears at the Munich Staatsoper as Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro and the Poet Prosdocimo in Rossini’s Il turco in Italia and as Lindorf, Coppelius, Dr.Miracle and Dapertutto in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann at Madrid’s Teatro Real. 

Future engagements feature returns to Vienna, Madrid, London and Barcellona and his debut with the Lyric Opera of Chicago.