Italian tenor and actor Pino de Vittorio has performed in opera and in sacred and secular vocal pieces, but some of his most distinctive recordings are historical investigations into regional Italian folk music forms. As an actor, Vittorio has appeared at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, where he also began to find operatic roles. Vittorio increasingly emphasized Baroque music. He co-founded the Baroque ensemble La Cappella della Pieta’ dei Turchini, with which he has appeared in operas by a host of lesser-known Italian Baroque composers. He has recorded for the Symphonia, Opus 111, Naïve, Eloquentia, and Glossa labels. For the last of these he recorded collections of Calabrian and Sicilian folk music. ~ James Manheim