He studied French and German literature and made his operatic debut in 2002 with Pergolesi’s La serva padrona in Florence. Within a few seasons, his vocal, interpretative, and stage qualities were recognised by Italian critics with the 2009 Franco Abbiati Prize for his performance in the title role of Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero at Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He was also awarded the BBC Music Magazine Opera Award 2017 for his interpretation of Leporello in Don Giovanni conducted by Theodor Currentzis.

At the beginning of his career, he appeared regularly in Baroque and Mozart repertoire, collaborating with conductors such as Alan Curtis, Ivor Bolton, Marko Letonja, Fabio Biondi, and Gérard Korsten. In 2006, he made his debut at Teatro alla Scala as Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro and performed Die Zauberflöte (Papageno) at Teatro La Fenice in Venice and Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. Shortly thereafter, he made his debuts at the Salzburg Festival (Armida by Haydn, directed by Christof Loy), at the Bayerische Staatsoper (La Calisto, Ariodante, Tamerlano), and at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Le nozze di Figaro, title role). In 2010, he first collaborated with Riccardo Muti in Jommelli’s La Betulia liberata at the Wiener Staatsoper.

Today, Vito Priante is considered a leading interpreter of the Mozart–Da Ponte trilogy, which he has performed on many of the world’s most prestigious stages, including Milan, Tokyo, Madrid, Glyndebourne, Lyon, Bologna, Berlin, Rome, and Salzburg.

Rossini’s repertoire has also been central to his career. His Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia has taken him to Toronto, Florence, Muscat, Turin, London, and Rome, while Dandini in La Cenerentola remains his most frequently performed role, with appearances in Vienna, Los Angeles, Munich, Muscat, Naples, Chicago, Rome, Montreal, and Paris. He has also performed Prosdocimo in Il turco in Italia in Munich and Amsterdam, and appeared in La gazzetta and Adina at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.

Thanks to his wide vocal range, he has also taken on numerous bass-baritone roles, including Escamillo in Carmen (London, Dresden, Venice, Turin, Milan), the four villains in Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Madrid, Tel Aviv), and Nick Shadow in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress (Florence).

In recent seasons, he has expanded his repertoire with roles such as the Duke of Nottingham in Roberto Devereux (Munich), Lord Cecil in Maria Stuarda (Barcelona), Alphonse XI in La favorite (Florence), Seid in Il corsaro (Valencia), Ford in Falstaff (Munich), and Giorgio Germont in La traviata (Strasbourg, Colmar, Mulhouse).

Recent highlights include Don Giovanni (Leporello) at the Salzburg Festival, directed by Romeo Castellucci and conducted by Theodor Currentzis, as well as at Teatro Regio di Parma and the Caracalla Festival; Il prigioniero at the Hamburg Musikfest under Antonio Pappano; Le nozze di Figaro (Figaro) at Teatro Real in Madrid in Claus Guth’s new production and at Teatro Regio in Turin; his debut in Strauss’s Capriccio (Olivier) at the Bayerische Staatsoper; La Cenerentola (Dandini) at the Opéra national de Paris; Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress with Daniele Gatti at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Henri Ashton in Lucie de Lammermoor at the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo; Don Pizarro in Fidelio at Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari; and Il cappello di paglia di Firenze at Teatro alla Scala.

In concert, he has recently performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome under Antonio Pappano, with whom he also performed Bach’s Matthäus-Passion and Fauré’s Requiem; Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Orchestra of Teatro di San Carlo in Naples under Donato Renzetti and at the Caracalla Festival; Schubert’s Mass No. 2 in G major, D167 with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under Riccardo Muti; Il viaggio a Reims (Don Alvaro) in concert form at the Rossini Opera Festival under Michele Mariotti; and Donizetti’s Requiem at the Saint-Denis Festival.

Engagements in the 2025/26 season include Verdi’s Macbeth at the Festival Verdi in Parma, Caterina Cornaro at the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo, Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Opéra de Marseille, and Don Giovanni at the New National Theatre Tokyo.

Throughout his career, Vito Priante has collaborated with conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Ivor Bolton, Antonio Pappano, Daniele Gatti, Theodor Currentzis, James Conlon, Stefano Montanari, Fabio Luisi, Myung-Whun Chung, Maurizio Benini, Daniel Oren, Jesús López Cobos, Daniel Barenboim, Jeffrey Tate, Antonello Manacorda, Daniel Harding, and Marc Minkowski, as well as directors including Claus Guth, Christoph Marthaler, Peter Stein, Graham Vick, Andreas Homoki, Damiano Michieletto, Christof Loy, Calixto Bieito, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Emma Dante, Romeo Castellucci, David Alden, Pierre Audi, and Robert Carsen.