He graduated from the “Nicola Sala” Conservatoire in Piano performance
and Opera, there he also studied Organ and Chamber music. He studied style
and praxis of the baroque repertoire with contralto Sonia Prina. Currently
he studies with the mezzo Chiara Chialli. In 2012 he made his debut
singing Don Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the 51° Stresa Festival.
In 2013 he won 67th competition of Teatro Lirico Sperimentale of Spoleto
where he performed Guglielmo in Così fan tutte. In the same year he was
admitted at Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro with Alberto Zedda, singing at
XXV Rossini Opera Festival in Il Viaggio a Reims. In 2018 he won “XLVIII
Toti dal Monte Competition” in Treviso and in 2019 he won 70th “As.Li.Co.”
singing competition in Como. First price and best bass price at “Giulio
Neri” International Singing Competition 2021 and Mozart price at “Viñas
Competition” 2022 in Barcelona.
Main engagements, in the previous seasons, include: Osmin in Mozart’s
Zaide at the Opera di Roma conducted by Daniele Gatti and directed
by Graham Vick, Mustafà in Adina at the Rossini Opera Festival, Ferrando
in Il Trovatore at the Macerata Opera Festival, the title role of Le Nozze
di Figaro in Treviso, Ferrara e Jesi, Blansac in La Scala di
seta in a ROF tournè at the ROH in Muscat (Oman), Rodolfo in La Sonnambula
and Walter in Guglielmo Tell for AsLiCo, Togrul in A. Casella’s La donna
serpente at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca under the
baton of Fabio Luisi, Gaudenzio in Il signor Bruschino at the
Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Colline in La Boheme at the Teatro Regio
Turin, the title role of Noye Fludde by B. Britten in Sassari, Masetto in
Don Giovanni for AsLiCo directed by Graham Vick, and also at the Theater
Basel, Teatro La Fenice and Stadttheater Klagenfurt.
About the baroque repertoire: In 2021 He took part at the Monteverdi
Festival playing Plutone in Orfeo and Plutone in Monteverdi’s Il Ballo
delle ingrate at the Teatro Ponchielli Cremona. He sang some first
performances in modern times such as the role of Polinestore in A. Lotti’s
Polidoro at the Teatro Olimpico Vicenza and Plutone in N. Porpora’s Orfeo
at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca. He sang Achilla in
Giulio Cesare at the Cairo Opera House, Jesus in Bach’s Johannes Passion
at the Cathedral of Vicenza, Ubaldo in La serva padrona at the Palazzo
Leoni Montanari in Vicenza.
He sang sacred and symphonic music: Mozart’s Mass in ut min at the
Auditorium S. Cecilia in Rome, Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle di
Rossini and Mozart’s Requiem at the Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, Brahms’s
Ein deutsches Requiem at the Teatro San Carlo Neaples, Mozart’s
Kroenungmesse and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Sacred Music
Festival in Vatican, Petite Messe at the Teatro Olimpico Vicenza, Haydn’s
Missa in illo tempore at the Cathedral of Como and S. Agostino’s Church in
Cremona.
He sang also some contemporary music world premieres: 5th Woman in G.
Battistelli’s CO2 at the Teatro alla Scala directed by Robert Carsen,
Araldo in S. Sciarrino’s Il canto s’attrista, perchè? at the Stadttheater
Klagenfurt, the main charachter in S. Steen-Andersen’s The return at the
La Biennale in Venice, Dante in S. Monterisi’s Schicchi e Puccini at the
Teatro Municipale Piacenza.
Recent engagements include: Alidoro in La Cenerentola at the
Teatro Petruzzelli Bari, Teatro Lirico Cagliari and Teatro Maria Callas
Athene; Alfonso d’Este in Lucrezia Borgia at the Teatro Comunale
Bologna and Stadttheater Essen; Leporello in Don Giovanni at the
Teatro Comunale Sassari; Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore at the
Teatro dell’Opera Roma; Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro and Le
Gouverneur in Le Comte Ory at the Teatro Comunale Bologna; the
return at the Rossini Opera Festival as Licinio in Aureliano in
Palmira; the debut as Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor at
the Israeli Opera Tel Aviv; and Tosca (Sagrestano) at the
Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Daniel Harding conducting and Deutsche
Grammophon recording.
November 2024