Vincent Casagrande

An alumnus of the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna, the Swiss baritone Vincent Casagrande trained there under the guidance of Peter Edelmann and Florian Boesch, after studying with Janet Williams in Berlin and Jörg Dürmüller in Lausanne. In 2019, he received support from the Friedl Wald Foundation, followed in 2020 by the Leenaards Cultural Grant. Among his recent engagements are the roles of Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Marcello in La Bohème, Ramiro in L’Heure espagnole in Béatrice Lachaussée’s new production for Opera Zuid, and Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande at the Théâtre de l’Athénée in Paris. Vincent also performed the role of Korolev in Laika, the Space Dog in Fribourg and at the Opéra Comique in Paris, as well as the Prisoner in Gerald Barry’s Salome at Theater Magdeburg and the Marquis in Verdi’s La Traviata.

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In the concert repertoire, Vincent recently performed the role of Simon in Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten with the Kammerphilharmonie and Erwin Ortner in Vienna, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem in Fribourg with Pierre-Fabien Roubaty, Bach’s Magnificat under the baton 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 appearances 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.

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Among his upcoming engagements, Vincent will join the ensemble of the Magdeburg Theater from the 2025–2026 season for several months. There, he will sing the roles of Marcel Proust in Schnittke’s Leben mit Idioten, Juan Perón in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita and Caudillo in Nico Dostal's Clivia. He will also appear as Marullo in Rigoletto at the Opéra de Lausanne, and reprise the role of the Prisoner in Gerald Barry’s Salome under the baton of Thomas Adès with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in March 2026.