“If the buzz surrounding this dynamic Italian opera star is anything to go by then 2006 is going to be Vittorio's year” Hitsheet (UK)- December 2005

It might have something to do with being passionately Italian, but the term “half measure” is not in the vocabulary of Vittorio Grigolo. Born in Rome but brought up in Arezzo, near Florence, Vittorio, at 28, has already become one of the premier tenors of his generation.

Encouraged by his father, who played opera in the car while driving him to school, Vittorio was singing arias around the house by the age of four. At age nine he was discovered while singing in an optician’s shop in Rome, and was chosen for the world-famous Sistine Chapel Choir. Vittorio soon became a soloist in “the little bambino choir.”

A few years later, Vittorio was invited to sing Tosca with Pavarotti at the Rome opera theatre. Pavarotti was so impressed by his adolescent co-star that he raved about him after his performance to the press, who in turn dubbed him il Pavarottino, or the “little Pavarotti.”