After graduating in singing and piano, and completing studies in organ
and chamber music at the “N. Sala” Conservatory of Benevento, he was
admitted to advanced training academies such as the Accademia del Teatro
alla Scala, Accademia del Belcanto Rodolfo Celletti, Accademia Rossiniana
Alberto Zedda, and Accademia del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto. In
2018 he won the Toti dal Monte Competition in Treviso and in 2019 the
As.Li.Co. Competition; in 2021 he was awarded the First Prize and the Best
Bass Prize at the Giulio Neri Competition. In 2022 he won the Mozart Prize
at the 59th Viñas Competition in Barcelona.
He has sung with internationally renowned conductors including Fabio
Luisi, Daniele Gatti, Daniel Harding, Oksana Lyniv, Xu Zhong, George
Petrou, Ottavio Dantone, Francesco Lanzillotta, Nikolas Nägele, Stefano
Montanari, Yves Abel, and Carlo Montanaro. Among the most important
directors he has worked with are Mario Martone, Graham Vick, Robert
Carsen, Hugo de Ana, Leo Muscato, Emma Dante, Damiano Michieletto, Davide
Livermore, Arnaud Bernard, Alessandro Talevi, and Chiara Muti.
Among the most significant engagements of previous seasons: Alidoro in La
Cenerentola at the Petruzzelli Theatre in Bari, the Teatro Lirico of
Cagliari, and the Maria Callas Theatre in Athens; Alfonso d’Este in Lucrezia
Borgia at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and the Stadttheater Essen;
Leporello in Don Giovanni at the Teatro Comunale di Sassari and
Teatro Comunale di Bologna; Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro at the
Shanghai Opera House, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and in a co-production
by the theatres of Treviso, Ferrara, and Jesi; Sacristan in Tosca
(season opener) at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia conducted by
M° Daniel Harding; Dulcamara in L'Elisir d’Amore and Osmin in
Mozart’s Zaide at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma conducted by M°
Daniele Gatti and directed by G. Vick; Le Gouverneur in Le Comte Ory
at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna; Licinius in Aureliano in Palmira
and Mustafà in Adina at the Rossini Opera Festival; Blansac in La
Scala di Seta on the ROF tour at the ROH in Muscat (Oman); Raimondo
in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv; Ferrando
in Il Trovatore at the Macerata Opera Festival; Rodolfo in La
Sonnambula and Walter in Guglielmo Tell for AsLiCo; Togrul
in La Donna Serpente by A. Casella at the Festival della Valle
d'Itria conducted by M° Fabio Luisi; Gaudenzio in Il Signor Bruschino
at La Fenice in Venice; Colline in La Bohème at the Teatro Regio
in Turin; Noye in Noye’s Fludde by B. Britten in Sassari; Masetto
in Don Giovanni in the AsLiCo circuit theatres directed by Graham
Vick, as well as at Theater Basel, Teatro La Fenice, and Stadttheater
Klagenfurt; Don Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Stresa
Festival; Achilla in a new production of Giulio Cesare by Händel
directed by Chiara Muti and conducted by M° Ottavio Dantone with the
Accademia Bizantina, at the theatres of Ravenna, Modena, Piacenza, Lucca,
Reggio Emilia, Bolzano, and in concert form at the Opera de Tenerife;
Duncan\A Courtier\Macduff in Macbeth by Salvatore Sciarrino in
Salzburg; and Don Alfonso in Così Fan Tutte at the Teatro Comunale
di Bologna.
In the baroque repertoire: he inaugurated the 2021 Monteverdi Festival
performing Pluto in Orfeo and Pluto in Il Ballo delle Ingrate
by C. Monteverdi at the Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona. He sang Jesus in
J.S. Bach’s Johannes Passion, Ubaldo in La Serva Padrona
by G.B. Pergolesi. He also performed several modern premieres such as the
role of Polinestor in Polidoro by A. Lotti at the Teatro Olimpico
in Vicenza and Pluto in Orfeo by N. Porpora at the Festival della
Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca.
In sacred and symphonic music he has sung Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
and Mozart’s Krönungsmesse at the Vatican Sacred Music Festival,
Mozart’s Requiem and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle at
the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem at
the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and Haydn’s Missa in Tempore Belli
in Como, Cremona, and Taranto.
He has performed world premieres of contemporary music repertoire: 5th
Woman in CO2 by G. Battistelli at La Scala with staging by R.
Carsen; Herald in Il Canto S’Attrista, Perché? by S. Sciarrino at
the Stadttheater Klagenfurt; lead role in the opera The Return by
S. Steen-Andersen for the Venice Biennale; Dante in Schicchi e Puccini
by S. Monterisi at the Teatro Municipale in Piacenza.
Among the 2025-26 season engagements are: Achilla in Giulio Cesare
by Händel at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari in the production by Damiano
Michieletto and conducted by M° Stefano Montanari; Duncan\A
Courtier\Macduff in Macbeth by Salvatore Sciarrino in Parma;
Colline in La Bohème at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna; and
Alidoro in La Cenerentola at the Teatro Regio in Turin.
He teached Chamber Vocal Music at the “C. Pollini” Conservatory of Music
in Padua and at the “G. B. Pergolesi” Conservatory of Music in Fermo. From
September 2024 he becomes Singing Professor at the “A. Buzzolla”
Conservatory of Music in Adria.
August 2025