Born in Palermo, he began studying singing, in parallel with his studies in Architecture, with Paride Venturi; he later specialised at the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milan and at Carlo Bergonzi's Accademia Verdiana in Busseto.

 

Thanks to his remarkable vocal and acting skills, he immediately established himself internationally in a vast repertoire that includes: Zurga in Les pechéurs de perles in Venice, Parma and Modena; Nearque in Gounod's Polyeucte in Martina Franca; Azzo in Donizetti's Parisina in Bergamo; Folco in Donizetti's Ugo, Conte di Parigi at the Teatro Bellini in Catania, Ruggiero in La Juive in Venice; Riccardo in I Puritani in Palermo and at the Savonlinna Festival; Fabrizio in La gazza ladra at the Comunale di Bologna; Massenet's Manon at La Scala di Milano and in Palermo; Prosdocimo in Il turco in Italia at the Carlo Felice di Genova, at the Regio di Torino and at the Opéra de Dijon; Guglielmo in Così fan tutte in Palermo; Belcore in L'elisir d'amore at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and in Verona; Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia at La Scala, Verona, Venice, on tour in Abu Dhabi, at the Opera in Rome, at the Massimo di Palermo in Toulouse and Don Bartolo at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, at the Teatro Regio di Parma and at the Bellini di Catania; Schaunard and Marcello in La bohéme at the Arena di Verona, at La Scala, at the Petruzzelli di Bari, in Palermo, Catania, at the Glyndebourne Festival, in Cagliari and Seoul; Marchese Tulipano in Paisiello's Il matrimonio inaspettato in Salzburg; Marco in Gianni Schicchi, Mamma Agata in Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali, Taddeo in L'italiana in Algeri and Germano in La scala di seta at La Scala; Germont in La Traviata with London's Covent Garden on tour in Japan, Saint-Etienne and Palermo; Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Rambaldo in La rondine in Toulon; Masetto in Don Giovanni at the Arena di Verona; Silvio in Pagliacci in Taormina and at the San Carlo in Naples; Ping in Turandot at the Arena di Verona, the Royal Opera House Muscat, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Comunale in Bologna, St. Margarethen; Ford in Falstaff in Busseto; Sharpless in Madama Butterfly at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the San Carlo in Naples and the Seoul Arts Center; Sulpice in La fille du régiment at the Teatro alla Scala, in Palermo and at the Royal Opera House in Muscat; Baron Zeta in La vedova allegra at the Verdi in Salerno; Paolo in Simon Boccanegra at the NCPA in Beijing; Pacuvio in La pietra del paragone and Il Re in La bella addormentata nel bosco at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; Fra' Melitone in La forza del destino in Genoa; Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola in Brescia, Pavia, Cremona, Bergamo, Como, Bologna and Dandini at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania; Tobia Mill in La cambiale di matrimonio and Don Annibale Pistacchio in Il campanello in Cagliari.

 

He has worked with leading conductors such as: Allemandi, Arrivabeni, Battistoni, Campanella, Chailly, Chung, Dudamel, Fourniller, Mariotti, Muti, Neschiling, Oren, Pappano, Renzetti, Santi, Soudant, Spotti, Steinberg, Webb, Wilson, and directors such as: Albanese, Barbe&Doucet, Corsetti, Crivelli, Dante, Gandini, Joel, Livermore, Mariani, McVicar, Micheletto, Morassi, Ronconi, Sparvoli, Zeffirelli.

 

His recent and future engagements include: L'elisir d'amore (Dulcamara) at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and in Prague; Don Pasquale (Malatesta) at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari and (Don Pasquale) in Prague; Il matrimonio segreto (Geronimo) at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; La bohème (Marcello) and Turandot (Ping) at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania; La Cenerentola (Don Magnifico), Don Giovanni (Leporello) and Il barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro) at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse and (Don Bartolo) at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari and at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; L'italiana in Algeri (Taddeo) at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome.

 

December 2024