The Italian baritone has been hailed at Milan’s La Scala in L’elisir d’amore, Un ballo in maschera, Lucia di Lammermoor, Francesca da Rimini, and Pagliacci. Viviani’s other successes in bel canto include La favorita (Genoa), Don Pasquale (Paris), L’elisir d’amore (Genoa, Chicago, Paris, further performances later this season in Naples), Lucia di Lammermoor (Lausanne, San Francisco, Turin), and I puritani (Vienna, Bilbao, Monte Carlo). Viviani has confirmed his stature as a Verdi interpreter in Attila (Shanghai), Macbeth (Turin), Giovanna d’Arco (Vienna), Luisa Miller (Berlin), La traviata (Macerata, Verona, Valencia, Vienna, Oviedo, Barcelona), Un ballo in maschera (Turin, Paris, Vienna, Tokyo), I vespri siciliani (Turin, Vienna), La forza del destino (Paris), Don Carlo (Florence), and Simon Boccanegra (Genoa, Seville). He has been acclaimed in Puccini and verismo, appearing in Madama Butterfly (Genoa, Trieste, Venice, Verona, Paris, London), La bohème (Toronto, Torre del Lago, London, Zurich, Tokyo), Tosca (Torre del Lago, St. Petersburg), Andrea Chénier (Naples), and Iris (Montpellier), Pagliacci (Turin). His appearances outside French repertoire include Les Troyens (Valencia) and Carmen (Verona).
