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Born in Rome, he graduated from the
Conservatory of Santa Cecilia with MĦ Rebecca Berg, also by studying with MĦ
Renato Federighi and with MĦ Chiara
Migliari and in time he studied with great artists
including Leila Gencer , Regina Resnik,
Leone Magiera, Luigi Alva, Enza
Ferrari and about staging with MĦ Vittorio Caprioli
and Dario Fo.
He debuted in 1991 at the Cantiere of Montepulciano, as Giorgio
in Nina ÒPazza per amoreÓ of Paisiello and as winner of the competition Toti dal Monte of Treviso he sang Guglielmo
in Cosi fan tutte
of Mozart under the direction of Peter Maag.
In 1993 he won the Competition "William
Walton Foundation Award" in wich he played the role of Dandini in La Cenerentola by
Rossini; and in 1996 in the Competition "Francisco Vinas"
he won the award for "Best Mozart artist".
He started a long career that saw
him on the stages of major Italian Theaters: La Scala in Milano, the Teatro Regio in Torino, La Fenice in
Venezia, the Carlo Felice in Genova, the San Carlo in
Napoli, the Teatro Comunale
in Firenze, the Opera in Roma, the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, the Teatro Regio in Parma, the Verdi in Trieste, the Petruzzelli in Bari, the Grand Theatre in Torre del Lago and some "Teatri di Tradizione" as the Comunale
in Treviso, Bergamo, Messina, Politeama in Lecce, the
Theatre of Jesi, Mantova, Cremona, the Valli in Reggio Emilia, in Savona, the Giglio in Lucca.
He also performed on the stages of many of the biggest
international theaters such as the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Paris Opera with
the Orchestra of Ile de France, the Staats Oper in Berlin, the Barbican Center
in London, the Philharmonie in Monaco of Bavaria, the Oper
in Frankfurt, the Theatre of Aix-en-Provence, la Monnaie
in Brussels, the Choregies of Orange, the Concertgebau in Amsterdam, the Theatre in Valladolid, the ReiseOpera of Enschede, the
Municipal of Lima (Peru), the Haram Nuri Opera House
in Seoul (Korea) and others.
In these theaters
he played all the leading roles of his repertoire: Don
Pasquale and Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Belcore in L'Elisir d'Amore, Figaro
and Conte
in Nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo and Don Alfonso
in Cos fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Leporello and Masetto in Don Giovanni, Mephisto in Faust, Falke
in Pipistrello, Dandini in
Cenerentola, Figaro and Bartolo in Barbiere
di Siviglia of Rossini and Bartolo and Basilio
in Barbiere di Siviglia of Paisiello, Marcello and Schaunard in La Bohme, Matieu in Andrea Chenier,
Annibale in Campanello of Donizetti,
Petronio in Astrologi immaginari of
Paisiello, Apollo in Orfeo of Monteverdi, Agamennone in La
Bella Elene, Conte in La Molinara of Paisiello,
Conte in Pamela of
Farinelli, Sprecher in
the Flauto Magico, Foresto in Arcadia in Brenta of Galluppi,
Uberto in La Serva padrona of Pergolesi and Paisiello, Musico
in I Medici, Marco and Betto in Gianni
Schicchi, Sacrestano in Tosca, Dancairo
in Carmen and others.
Moreover for several years he was a
guest of the ROF, Rossini Opera Festival performing Taddeo
in Italiana in Algeri, Filiberto in Signor Bruschino, Chausser
in Guillaume Tell, Riccardo in Matilde
di Shabran, and other roles in performances as
part of the artistic production of Pesaro Festival and as an expert of Rossini style has
also been a frequent guest of the Wildbad Rossini Festspiele in Germany.
He performed
with some very important Stage Directors and Conductors, including: Jeffrey Tate, Peter Maag, Jordi Savall, Salvatore Accardo, Bruno Campanella, Yves Abel,
Gianluigi Gelmetti, Daniele Gatti, Donato Renzetti,
Giuliano Carella, Massimo De Bernard, Nicola Piovani, Paolo Carignani,
Marco Ranzani, Corrado Rovaris,
Luca Ronconi, Roberto De Simone, Pierluigi Pizzi,Walter Pagliaro, Luis Alva, Ugo De Hana, Pier'Alli, Jannis Coccos , Antonio Calenda,
Carlos Saura, Dario Fo,Gabriele Vacis, Maurizio Scaparro, Ferruccio Soleri, Trisha Brown, Luis Pasqual, Fabio Sparvoli, Cristina Comencini, Ivor Bolton, Gianandrea Noseda, Alberto Veronesi, Filippo Crivelli, Antonino
Fogliani,Ugo Gregoretti, Stefano Vizioli and others.
His repertoire includes several scores of
Sacred Music that debuts performed with great
conductors:
Faure' Requiem, Brahms Requiem,
Mozart Requiem, Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle, Bach Magnificat,
Mass in B minor of Mozart, Handel Messiah, Bach Johannes Passion, Mass KV
317 KV 220 and KV 427 of Mozart, Mass op . 86 of Beethoven, Magnificat of Butxtehude, Liszt
Via Crucis and others scores.
RECORDINGS
Barbiere di Siviglia for EMI
Guglielmo Tell for ROF
Convenienze Teatrali
for BMG
Torvaldo e Dorliska and lĠOccasione fa il
ladro for NAXOS
Astrologi immaginari for
BONGIOVANNI
Orfeo for MONNAIE
In recent years also began his
teaching by the desire to make available to young singers emerging stage of his
artistic experience in both the vocal technique is the art stage, keeps
constantly Conference for Musicology and musical associations held a
interdisciplinary seminar in Theatre History at the Historical Institute of
the University of Modena.