Vincio Cheli was born in Italy. He has worked at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Piccolo Theater in Milan and the Festival Rossini de Pesaro. He has lit, among others, La clemenza di Tito, Idomeneo (Mozart), Tristan und Isolde, Die Walküre (Wagner), Guglielmo Tell, Semiramide, Otello (Rossini), Fidelio (Beethoven), Falstaff, Aida (Verdi), Armide (Gluck), Norma (Bellini), Carmen (Bizet) and others at the Theater Châtelet and Ópera Bastille in Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Teatro de la Zarzuela, Salzburg, Brussels, Verona, Toulouse, La Scala in Milan and others.

Ath the Israeli Opera he designed lighting for the productions:

Tosca (2019)
Les Contes d'Hoffmann (2007)