Carlo Cigni was born in Italy. His repertoire includes Colline in La boheme (Puccini), Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), Oroveso in Norma (Bellini), Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra, Banco in Macbeth, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Lodovico in Otello (Verdi), Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart), Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Mephistopheles in La Damnation de Faust (Berlioz) and many others. He performs regularly in La Scala, Covent Garden, the Arena di Verona and the opera houses of Munich, Amsterdam, Florence, Turin, Genoa, Rome, Venice, Bologna, Parma, Zurich, Lisbon, Lyon, Paris, Seville, Catania and many others.

His roles at the Israeli Opera:
Les Contes d'Hoffmann: The four villans (2014)
Luisa Miller: Wurm (2013)
Aida: Il Re (2009) preformed by the La Scala Opera from Milan