Vittorio Grigolo, one of today’s foremost Italian tenors, was discovered as a child, became a member of the Sistine Chapel Choir and gave his stage debut aged 13 as the shepherd boy in Tosca. Local critics immediately nicknamed him “Pavarottino” after Luciano Pavarotti, who was famously singing in that production. But next to his passionate rendering of the leading parts in operas by Puccini, Verdi and Donizetti, Grigolo never hid his passion for pop music. Indeed, his first album from 2006, In the Hands of Love (Vittorio), contains numbers by Keane, Stevie Wonder and Romano Musumarra, the Italian songwriter who composed works for Céline Dion, Sylvie Vartan, Mireille Mathieu and Stéphanie of Monaco.
“My wish is to always present new things to my audience”, said Vittorio Grigolo when his project dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Frank Sinatra’s passing was created by the Ravello Festival in 2023. It is thrilling to hear how the Italian tenor pays homage to “The Voice” without ever betraying his own, operatic voice – less grainy and darkly seductive as Sinatra’s but charmingly youthful, caressingly elegant and fervently aglow.
Accompanied by a symphony orchestra as well as a jazz orchestra, Grigolo presents around twenty newly arranged hits from the more than eighteen hundred songs Sinatra left us in more than two hundred albums, sixty-two films and hundreds of television shows during the sixty-five years of his unique career.
Jazz Orchestra de Salerne