Won the "A. Belli” Competition in Spoleto, making his debut in Le Nozze di Figaro, staged by Gigi Proietti. Much appreciated also for his qualities as an actor, he performs in major opera houses and festivals in Italy and abroad, collaborating with conductors such as Ivor Bolton, Bruno Campanella, Myung-Whun Chung, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti and Wolfgang Sawallisch.Recent engagements include: La Calisto at the ROH Covent Garden, Agrippina at the Teatro Real in Madrid with Alan Curtis, Giulio Cesare alongside Cecilia Bartoli with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants in Paris. He has recorded Don Giovanni (Telarc), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (BMG) with Roberto Abbado, Werther (BMG) under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski.