Born in Paternò, he began his artistic studies at a very young age, specializing in opera singing with Sara Pastorello. At the age of nineteen, he won the special prize “Young Talent” at the Bellini Competition in Caltanissetta and took second place at the “Ruggero Leoncavallo” Competition in Montalto Uffugo. In 2002, he won first prize at the “Francesco Cilea” Competition in Reggio Calabria.

He made his debut as Uberto in Pergolesi’s La serva padrona at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Cali, Colombia. In 2003, he won the “Young Opera Singers European Community Competition” in Spoleto, debuting the roles of Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro and Dr. Grenvil in La Traviata, which he later also performed on tour in Japan. He then appeared as Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore with As.Li.Co in numerous Italian cities; Mustafà in L’Italiana in Algeri; Colline in La Bohème at the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto; and Figaro at the Teatro Comunale in Treviso.

He later performed in Il cappello di paglia di Firenze (Emilio) at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Pagliacci (Silvio) in Verona; L’amico Fritz (David) in Cagliari; Il campanello (Enrico), La Bohème (Marcello), Roméo et Juliette (Mercutio), Turandot (Ping), and Don Giovanni (Masetto) at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. He has also sung in Le roi de Lahore and La Bohème at La Fenice in Venice; Il viaggio a Reims (Barone di Trombonok and Don Prudenzio) at the Rossini Opera Festival and at La Monnaie in Brussels; Le nozze di Figaro (Figaro) and Don Giovanni (Masetto) at Teatro alla Scala; La Bohème (Schaunard) in Bologna, Treviso, Jesi, Fermo, and Venice.

He has worked with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Fabio Luisi, Yuri Temirkanov, Marcello Viotti, Gustavo Dudamel, Gerard Korsten, Kazushi Ono, Sergio Alapont, Maurizio Arena, Daniele Callegari, Fabrizio Maria Carminati, and Marco Guidarini. Among the stage directors he has collaborated with are Giorgio Pressburger, Maurizio Scaparro, Peter Mussbach, Jean-Louis Grinda, Lorenzo Mariani, Andrea Cigni, Stefano Vizioli, Mario Pontiggia, Franco Ripa di Meana, and Luca Ronconi.

He recently debuted as Ford in Falstaff in Sassari and Jesi, then appeared as Baron Zeta in The Merry Widow in Verona, Valentin in Faust in Skopje, Morales in Carmen at the Arena di Verona, Alidoro in La Cenerentola in Savona, Schaunard in La Bohème in Verona and Catania, and participated in La Rondine in Lucca, Modena, and Livorno.

Among his most recent appearances: Sharpless in Madama Butterfly at the Teatro dell’Opera di Firenze and at the Glyndebourne Festival; La Bohème at the Petruzzelli in Bari and at the Torre del Lago Festival; La fanciulla del West (Happy) at Teatro alla Scala under Riccardo Chailly; Don Giovanni, The Merry Widow, Andrea Chénier, La capinera, and La Traviata at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania; Donizetti’s Requiem in Taranto and Rome conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti; Un ballo in maschera, Il barbiere di Siviglia (Bartolo), Palla de Mozzi, and L’amico Fritz in Cagliari; Andrea Chénier (Mathieu) and La fanciulla del West at La Scala; La Bohème in Naples; Madama Butterfly, Siberia, and La Rondine in Florence; Menotti’s The Telephone in Verona; Werther (Le Bailli) in Bari; Pagliacci (Silvio) in Catania; Falcone e Borsellino and Rigoletto at the Festival dei Teatri di Pietra; La Rondine in Jesi; La Traviata in Trieste, Udine, and Pordenone; and Carmina Burana in Modica.

August 2025