Born in Livorno, he graduated at the Conservatoire “Luigi Boccherini” in Lucca and studied with Maria Giovanna Gabanizza. He graduated at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and he emerged soon at the Parma’s Accademia Verdiana. He sang at the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca the Mozart’s
Bastien und Bastienne. He debuted in Livorno in Mascagni's
Guglielmo Ractliff and then at Teatro Verdi in Pisa in
L'incoronazione di Poppea (Seneca),
Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria (Nettuno),
L’Orfeo (Plutone) and
La Didone of Cavalli (Nettuno) at the Glasgow Festival.
After the debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 1996 with
The gambler by Prokof'ev, under the conducting of Valery Gergiev, he starts soon an intense collaboration with Lugano Rtsi.
Recent roles were:
Attila (Verdi) at Arena Sferisterio in Macerata, directed by Brockhaus,
The devils of Loudun by Penderecky at Teatro Regio in Torino, Shostakovich's
Lady Macbeth in the Mzensk District at Maggio Musicale conducted by Semyon Bychkov,
The magic flute (Sarastro) at Teatro dell’Opera inRome conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti and in Livorno conducted by Piero Bellugi,
Don Carlo (Il Frate) at Teatro San Carlo in Naples with Gabriele Ferro,
Madama Butterfly at Wiesbaden Theatre (De Bernart), National Opera inTokyo (Ranzani) and at Festival di Torre del Lago Puccini,
Macbeth at Teatro Comunale in Parma (Pidò),
Lucia di Lammermoor (Raimondo) at Teatro Donizetti in Bergano,
Tristan und Isolde at Teatro Comunale in Bologna with Christian Thielemann,
Tosca (Angelotti),
Fedora (Boroff) at Teatro Massimo in Palermo (Ranzani),
La battaglia di Legnano (Federico Barbarossa) at Teatro Bellini in Catania with Nello Santi,
La Bohème (Colline) at Teatro Verdi in Salerno,
Otello (Ludovico) at Teatro Comunale in Sassari,
Gianni Schicchi (Simone) at Teatro Vittorio Emanuele in Messina and at Cantiere in Montepulciano,
Don Giovanni (Il Commendatore) in Messina, Chieti and AsLiCo network (Rovaris),
Un ballo in maschera (Tom) in Bologna, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Piacenza and Ferrara, conducting Daniele Gatti.
He recently debutted with Ramfis in
Aida in Tiro (Liban).
In concerts he sings, amongst others,
Vespreae Solennes de Confessore and Requiem by Mozart, Verdi's
Messa di Requiem,
Ninth Symphony of Beethoven, Rossini's
Stabat Mater.
In September 2003 he started a long collaboration with Teatro Verdi in Trieste, where he has already sung in
Simon Boccanegra,
La serva padrona by Pergolesi,
Tosca and
Falstaff.
In September 2004 he debuted at the Teatro Comunale in Jesi in the world premiere of Marco Tutino’s
Federico II (Michele/Omar) conducted by Stewart Robertson.
Then he performed
I vespri siciliani (Il re di Bethune) in Palermo and Trieste,
Un ballo in maschera (Tom) and
Faust (Wagner) by Gounod (Casadeus). In November 2005 he sang Rossini’s
Stabat Mater at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London with the London Symphony Orchestra.
In 2006 he came back to Livorno to perform in the unpublished opera of Mascagni
In filanda; again in Livorno, he sang Mascagni's
Iris (Cieco), opening opera of the season of the Teatro Goldoni; he interpreted the same role in Trieste in 2008.
In April 2007 he performed
La forza del destino at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova conducted by Daniel Oren, followed by
Eugene Onegin in the same theatre and with the same conductor.
He has performed in the production of
Madama Butterfly in Torre del Lago (2007 and 2008), in Palermo for Janacek 's From the House of the Dead, in Lausanne for
La Traviata and
Il barbiere di Siviglia, in Korea and at San Carlo in Naples for
Madama Butterfly, in Trieste for
La fille du régiment and recently in Palermo for
Nabucco. Next engagements include
Romeo et Juliette in Trieste and Verona,
Otello in Trieste,
Un ballo in maschera in Lausanne and Manon Lescaut in Montpellier.