Franz Vitzthum had his early vocal and musical training as a chorister at Regensburg Cathedral, with study from 2001 at the Cologne Musikhochschule. In 1997 he won first prize in the Jugend musiziert and in 1999 took the Regensburg Julius F. Neumüller Scholarship, followed in 2003 with the first Tostmann Prize of the Austrian Baroque Academy. He has worked with a number of leading vocal ensembles, collaborating with conductors including Winfried Toll, Christoph Poppen, Peter Neumann and Nicholas McGegan. He has appeared at international festivals, including the Göttingen Handel Festival, the Rhineland-Palatine Culture Summer, Vienna Resonanzen, the Utrecht Oude Muziek Festival, and the Nantes La Folle Journée, and with chamber orchestras such as Basel Barock and The English Concert. In 2003 he sang the Devil in Detlev Glanert’s opera Scherz, Satire, Ironie und tiefere Bedeutung at the Munich Prince Regent Theatre’s Theatre Academy, and in 2005 made his début as Orfeo in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at Heidenheim.
