Swiss tenor Emiliano Gonzalez Toro was born in Geneva in 1976, and is a master
of Italian Renaissance works. Born into a family of Chilean refugees who had
settled in Romania and then Switzerland, he was stateless before acquiring Swiss
nationality at the age of eighteen. Enrolled in a choir from the age of eight,
he also studied the oboe before devoting himself to opera singing. After his
debut with the Ensemble vocal de Lausanne conducted by Michel Corboz, the young
tenor trained in the great scores of the sacred repertoire and made his operatic
debut with Christophe Rousset, w...