Born in Arezzo and raised in Rome, his musical path started from an early age. As a child, he sang as a soloist in the Sistine Chapel choir, later making his debut as the Shepherd in Tosca alongside Luciano Pavarotti. He made his debut at Teatro alla Scala in Milan at the age of twenty-three, in a concert under the baton of Riccardo Muti. Within a few years, he was appearing around the world with distinguished conductors as of Riccardo Chailly, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Myung-Whun Chung, Gustavo Dudamel and Antonio Pappano.

He has appeared on the most prestigious city theatre stages as Verona, München, Orange, Berlin, Barcelona, New York, Paris, Zurich, London, Wien. He has performed leading roles in both Italian as French operatic repertoire such as Carmen, Don Carlo, Faust, Il trovatore, La bohème, La traviata, Les contes d'Hoffmann, Lucia di Lammermoor, Manon, Rigoletto, Roméo et Juliette and Tosca.

During the 2023/24 season Vittorio Grigolo will perform Tosca on tour with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, as well as at the Vienna State Opera and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He will be Canio in I Pagliacci at the Staatsoper Hamburg and Manrico in Il trovatore at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.

Highlights of the 2022/23 season are appearances at the Teatro San Carlo and Wiener Staatsoper in La bohème, at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Tosca and Il trovatore, and returns to Teatro alla Scala for a new production of Les contes d’Hoffmann. Concert appearances include recitals in Milan and Prague, as well as a Gala concert in Tokyo and Buenos Aires. Later that season, he performs Alfredo in La traviata and Cavaradossi in Tosca at the 100th Arena di Verona Opera Festival. At the Ravello Festival, he performs in a concert dedicated to Frank Sinatra.

Vittorio is a successful recording artist with a platinum debut album, a Grammy-nominated recording of Bernstein’s West Side Story and four albums with Sony Classical.