About this Artist

Swiss baritone Vincent Casagrande, a former student of the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, trained there under the guidance of Peter Edelmann and Florian Boesch after studying with Janet Williams in Berlin and Jörg Dürmüller in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2019, he received support from the Friedl Wald Foundation, and in 2020, he was awarded the Leenaards Cultural Grant.

Among his recent engagements are the roles of Marcel Proust in Schnittke’s Leben mit einem Idioten, Juan Perón in Webber’s Evita, Patterton in Nico Dostal’s Clivia, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Marcello in La Bohème, Ramiro in L’Heure Espagnole, and Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande at the Théâtre de l’Athénée in Paris. Casagrande has also performed the role of Korolev in Laika, le chien de l’espace in Fribourg and at the Opéra Comique in Paris.

In the concert repertoire, Casagrande recently sang Simon in Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten with the Kammerphilharmonie and Erwin Ortner in Vienna, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Magdeburg, Bach’s Magnificat under the direction of Bojan Cicic, and Lully’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme with the Collegium Musicum Baroque Orchestra at the Schloßtheater Schönbrunn in 
Vienna.

A dedicated recitalist, his most recent performances include a Liederabend with Eric Cerantola in Geneva, songs by Duparc and lieder by Schoeck in Vienna with Andreas Froeschl, a Liederabend in Lausanne with pianist Florent Lattuga, and Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch alongside mezzo-soprano Sophie Marilley and pianist Eric Cerantola in Briare at the Festival du Piano Romantique in France.