Giulio Alvise Caselli was born in Ferrara, Northern Italy. He studied the violin at the conservatory in his home town and took singing lessons with his mother, Maria Gabriella Munari. He also graduated in German Literature and Linguistics at the University of Ferrara.

In 2002, Giulio Alvise Caselli moved to Munich, where he joined the Hochschule für Musik und Theater and studied with Wofgang Brendel and Sylvia Greenberg. In 2005, he graduated with a diploma in Opera. He then joined the Opera and the Lied course under Helmut Deutsch. He also took part in various master classes led by such personalities as Mirella Freni, Thomas Hampson, Luciana Serra, Carmen Anhorn-Sieb, Stelia Doz, Guido Salvetti and Franco Fussi.

Guilio Alvise Caselli’s professional debut in 1998 led him on the stage of the Teatro Comunale in Modena, where he interpreted Tom in Britten’s The little Sweep and Pasquariello in Giuseppe Gazzaniga’s Don Giovanni. The parts of the Father in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel and Tony in Bernstein’s West Side Story also count amongst his first appearances on the opera stage.

In 2002, he joined the Bavarian Theater Academy at the Prinzregententheater in Munich, where he sang Minotaurus in Bohuslav Martinù’s Ariadne, Anchise in Francesco Cavalli’s La Didone, Roi Ajax in Jacques Offenbach’s La belle Hélène and Starveling in Britten’s A Midsummernight’s Dream. He also interpreted Fieramosca in Hector Berlioz’ Benvenuto Cellini, staged in the Carl Orff Auditorium in Munich.

In 2005, he sang in Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos in a coproduction between the Teatro Saô Carlos of Lisbon and the Theatro Comunale of Ferrara. Thereafter, he appeared in several Italian opera houses and was broadcast live on Radio Tre RAI as Ned Keene in Cesare Lievi’s  staging of Peter Grimes. His performance earned him great critical acclaim. In January 2006, he interpreted Nardo in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera at the Prinzregententheater in Munich as part of the Mozart Festival organised by the Bavarian State Opera.  He guested with this part at the Mainfrankentheater in Würzburg, and at the theaters of Aschaffenburg and Ingolstadt. In May 2006, he guested in a production of Mozarteum in Salzburg in the title role of Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

From 2006/07 to 2008/09 Giulio Alvise Caselli was a member of the ensemble of Theater Dortmund. There he made his debut as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia. He also sang Fiorello in the same production. Furthermore he sang there Moralès in Carmen, Schlemihl in Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Achilles in Die schöne Helena by Jacques Offenbach. As Marullo he was a part of Christine Mielitz’ production of Rigoletto. In March 2007 he sang Papageno at the Konzerthauses Berlin in The Magic Flute, conducted by Leo Siberski. He sang the same role at the Teatro Coccia in Novara.

In 2007, Giulio Alvise Caselli reached the final round of the International Singing Competition Toti dal Monte 2007 in Treviso.

In the season 2007/08 he guested as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Theater Freiburg as well as Theater Augsburg, als Marullo in Rigoletto at Theater Aachen and as Frédéric in Lakmé by Leo Delibes at Theater Bielefeld. In Pasinger Fabrik in Munich he sang Guglielmo in Così fan tutte; with Munich Chamber Opera he sang Graf Hasdrubal in Dominik Wilgenbus‘ production of Rossini’s Pietra del Paragone.

In July 2009 he sang Figaro in Paisiello’s Barbiere di Siviglia for the Fondazione Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano in Italy and Hidulfus in Schumann’s Genoveva with “opera incognita” in Munich.

Giulio Alvise Caselli is also active as a concertist and has sung, for example, Mozart’s Mass KV 258 in the cathedral in Modena; Joseph Haydn’s Missa in Tempore Belli the church of Sankt-Emmeran in Regensburg; Gounod’s Requiem and Dvôrák’s Psalms in Munich and Ottobeuren; Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin; Wolf’s Italian Songs; Francesco Paolo Tosti’s Canzoni; and Joseph in Berlioz’ oratoriao L’Enfance du Christ. In September 2007, he sang Mahler’s Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen in the castle of Este in Ferrara accompanied by the Orchestra Città dì Ferrara.

Giulio Alvise Caselli has worked together with many renowned stage directors and conductors, including Cesare Lievi, Christian Pöppelreiter, Alexander Schulin, Doris Dörrie, Toni Servillo, Axel Köhler, Stefano Monti, Anthony Pilavachi, Beverly Blankenship, Zoltán Peskó, Alistair Dawes, Adriano Martinolli d’Arcy, David Stahl, Markus Poschner, Reinhard Seifried and Arthur Fagen.

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