After playing violin for many years, Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani began studying singing at the Cherubini’s Conservatory of Florence, subsequently improving his vocal technique with Sherman Lowe, Jorge Ansorena and Fernando Cordeiro.

He made his debut at a very young age in 2001 as soloist in Charpentier’s Te Deum at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence. In 2004 he performed, in the main role, Francesca Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola di Alcina at Belgrade’s Music Festival (Serbia). Subsequently he appeared in the following roles: Don Basilio and Don Curzio in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberfloete, Edoardo Milfort in Rossini’s La Cambiale di Matrimonio, Roberto in Galuppi’s L’Uomo Femmina (Festival Barocco di Viterbo) Marzio in Mozart’s Mitridate (Festival Mozart di Rovereto) Abate in Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur (Teatro sociale di Mantova) Mitridate in Porpora’s Mitridate (Teatro la Fenice and Teatro Malibran in Venice, Teatro Calderòn in Valladolid and Mozart Festival of Rovereto) Leontino in Vivaldi’s Atenaide (Teatro della Pergola in Florence and Festival Opera Barga, conducted by F. M. Sardelli) Cavalier Belfiore in Rossini’s Viaggio a Reims (Theatre of Jesi) Massimo in Handel’s and Jommelli’s’ Ezio (in Turin for MITO Festival, in Paris and in Santiago di Compostela, director Alan Curtis) Poisson in Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur (Teatro Comunale di Firenze). He recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Harmonia Mundi, Emi, Hyperion, Bongiovanni.

In 2007 he won the 2° prize at the VI Sacred Music International Competition in Rome and in 2009 he won the Toti Dal Monte International Competition in Treviso for the role of Conte Errico in Haydn’s La vera costanza.

In 2010 he plays the role of Tybalt in Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod at the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona.

February 2010.