Born in Pavia, he graduated in Aesthetic philosophy with honours from the University of Milan, graduated in violin at the Genoa Conservatory with Giulio Franzetti, attended the Experimental Composition course with Bruno Zanolini at the Milan Conservatory and studied singing with Paolo Montarsolo.

After his initial activity as a violinist, he made his debut in 2001 at the Rossini Opera Festival in the role of Don Alvaro in Il viaggio a Reims. After winning the AsLiCo Competition, he performed L'Italiana in Algeri (Taddeo) in the theatres of the Circuito Lirico Lombardo. Since then, he has been invited to perform in the most prestigious theatres in Italy and abroad.

He has sung under the baton of conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Roberto Abbado, Alberto Zedda, Michele Mariotti, Francesco Lanzillotta, Thomas Hengelbrock, Hartmut Haenchen, Ottavio Dantone, Diego Fasolis, Jean-Christophe Spinosi. He has collaborated with directors such as Dario Fo, Mario Martone, Ermanno Olmi, Pierluigi Pizzi, Emilio Sagi, Alfred Kirchner, Damiano Michieletto, Valentina Carrasco.

Notable successes include: Marschner's L'Italiana in Algeri (Taddeo) and Der Vampyr (Lord Ruthven) in Budapest; Il barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro) and La Bohème (Marcello) at La Fenice in Venice; Donizetti's Olivo and Pasquale (Olivo) at the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo; La Bohème (Marcello) in Naples; L'Italiana in Algeri (Taddeo) at the Sarasota Opera; Gianni Schicchi (title role) in Montpellier; Iphigénie en Tauride (Oreste) with Anna Caterina Antonacci in Geneva; Rossini's L'occasione fa il ladro (Don Parmenione) at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées; Die lustige Witwe (Danilo) in Genoa; Così fan tutte (Don Alfonso) in Florence, Toulouse and at the Rome Opera; Donizetti's Betly (Max) in Berlin; L'Elisir d'amore in Bari (Belcore) and Genoa (Dulcamara); La Cenerentola (Don Magnifico) in Palermo; Ravel's L'heure espagnole (Ramiro) in Shanghai; Martinu's Mirandolina (Il marchese di Forlimpopoli) in Venice; Le Nozze di Figaro (Conte d'Almaviva) in Geneva and Düsseldorf; Don Pasquale (Malatesta) in Oviedo, Santiago de Chile and Ravenna (conducted by Riccardo Muti); La pietra del paragone (Macrobio), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro) and Haydn's Orlando paladino (Pasquale) at the Théâtre du Châtelet; the world premiere of Battistelli's Il medico dei pazzi (Ciccillo) in Nancy; De Giosa's Don Checco (title role) in Naples; Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn with the Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie; Cavalli's La Calisto (Mercurio) in Geneva; Steffani's Niobe, regina di Tebe (Tiresia) at London's Covent Garden and in Luxembourg; Birtwistle's Punch and Judy (Punch) in Geneva; Candide (Maximilian/Captain/Zar Ivan) at the Rome Opera; Serse (Elviro) with Jean-Christophe Spinosi at Versailles; Die Fledermaus (Eisenstein) in Catania; La Gazzetta (Don Pomponio) at the Liceu in Barcelona; Donizetti's Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali (Mamm'Agata) in Dresden; Rossini's L'equivoco stravagante (Gamberotto) at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin; Don Giovanni (title role) in Düsseldorf; Il Turco in Italia (Poeta Prosdocimo) at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, in Düsseldorf and in Trieste; Vacchi's Teneke (Okçuoglu) at the Teatro alla Scala.

Among his most recent successes Donizetti's Bastarda (in the role of Nottingham) at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels; Gianni Schicchi (title role) with John Axelrod and Rihm's Jacob Lenz (title role) with Marco Angius at the Torre del Lago Festival; Vivaldi's Bajazet (title role) recorded on CD with the Accademia Bizantina and Ottavio Dantone and then staged at the Theater an der Wien, Hamburg, theatres in Emilia Romagna, Barcelona and Beaune; Iphigénie en Tauride (Oreste) with Diego Fasolis for OperaLombardia; La fille du régiment (Sulpice) and L'elisir d'amore (Belcore) in Cagliari; Don Pasquale (Malatesta) in Trieste; Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (Iro) with Ottavio Dantone in Cremona; Haydn's La fedeltà premiata (Conte Perrucchetto) in Herne and on CD with Andreas Spering; Il barbiere di Siviglia in Nancy (in the role of Bartolo) and in Denver, Florence and Geneva (in the role of Figaro); Falstaff (title role) and Don Pasquale (title role) in Montpellier; Krenek's Der Diktator and Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis in Tenerife; Vinci's Il malato immaginario and Sellitti's La vedova ingegnosa at the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca; Madama Butterfly (Sharpless) in Torre del Lago and Tokyo; Don Giovanni (title role) in Denver; La Bohème (Marcello) and L'Italiana in Algeri in Cagliari; Ristori's Pigmalione in Rovigo; Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas at the Comunale di Bologna and Reggio Emilia; Il Turco in Italia (Poeta) in Rovigo and Ravenna.

Future engagements include: Il Turco in Italia (Poet) in Jesi, Rimini, Novara and Pisa; Spontini's La Vestale in Jesi, Piacenza, Pisa, Ravenna; Gianni Schicchi in Bolzano; Madama Butterfly in Tokyo; Il Prigioniero in concert form in Padua and Il Maestro di cappella in Marseille.