Vittorio Prato's sexy Count in "Le Nozze di Figaro"

Vittorio Prato as the Count

Vittorio Prato is one of our favorite Italian barihunks, not just for his Armani model looks, but for his compelling stage presence. He's another one of those European singers who mysteriously hasn't appeared on a U.S. roster. Readers might remember our NSFW* post featuring Prato in Rameau's Les Indes Galantes" at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse.

He's wrapping up a run as the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro today at the Teatro Communale in the Sardinian city of Sassari. This was Prato's debut at the theater in a production directed by Marco Spada. The final performance was today, but we had to share the sexy shirtless pictures with our readers.

Vittorio Prato showing of his guns

The singer now takes a different Count on the road, Count Gil in Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di Susanna. The opera will be performed as part of a double-bill with Poulenc's La Voix humaine at Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg on February 20th and 23rd and at the Opéra Comique in Paris from March 17-29. As an added bonus, the riveting soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci will star in both operas.

Il segreto di Susanna is a comedy that depicts the beginnings of women's liberation in the early 20th as Susanna demands the right to partake in something reserved only for men - smoking.

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