At a concert his voice caught the attention and the famous Salzburg Festival singer Richard Mayr campaigned for him to be accepted as a student at the Mozarteum.
The Austrian Theatre Museum features role models from Jaromír Weinberger's Wallenstein' and Lehár's The Land of Smiles'.
He there sang first under the musical direction of Arturo Toscanini (Magic Flute, Fidelio, Meistersinger of Nuremberg), by Bruno Walter (Così fan tutte) and by Felix von Weingartner (The Corregidor).
After the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany, he was given the title of "The Corregidor" by the conductors Wilhelm Furtwängler, (Meistersinger) and Hans Knappertsbusch (Fidelio, Freischütz and Tannhäuser) to Salzburg.
Beethoven: d'Albert: Handel: Kienzl: Franz Lehár: Meyerbeer: Mozart: Nicolai: Hans Pfitzner: Puccini: Smetana: Richard Strauss: Verdi: Wagner: Weber: Wolf: Wolf-Ferrari: There are relatively few sound documents from Bissuti.