Born in the Republic of San Marino, after graduating in engineering at the University of Bologna he studied singing with Paride venturi.<\/p>\n
Winner of numerous competitions, including the “Citt\u00e0 di Roma\u201d that led him to debut in La Traviata (Germont): a role later taken up in many theatres, among them: Oper Leipzig, Op\u00e9ra de Montreal, Teatro Verdi di Pisa,\u00a0 <\/span>Teatro Goldoni di Livorno, Fenice di Venezia .<\/p>\n He then began his career singing: \u0160arlat\u00e1n<\/b> of P.Haas (in Czech) at the Wexford Festival Opera; Roland<\/b> of Piccinni, La Reine de Saba<\/b> (Soliman) of Gounod, Les Huguenots<\/b> (le Comte de Saint Bris) of Meyerbeer, Massenet\u2019s Werther<\/b> (Battisitini baritone version) and Gounod\u2019s Polyeucte<\/b> (S\u00e8vere) at the Festival della Valle d\u2019Itria di Martina Franca; La Boh\u00e8me<\/b> (Marcello) in Glyndebourne, Modena, Piacenza, Cagliari Ginevra, Palma de Mallorca and Bergamo; I Pagliacci (Silvio) in Bologna, Tenerife, San Carlo di Napoli; Madama Butterfly<\/b> (Sharpless) in Bologna, Genova, Glasgow, at the Deutsche Oper of Berlin, Roma, Venezia, Napoli; I Puritani<\/b> (Sir Riccardo Forth) in Trieste; Aida<\/b> (Amonasro) in Rovigo, Pisa,\u00a0 <\/span>Trento, Torino and Venezia; Stiffelio<\/b> (Stankar) in Trieste; Don Giovanni<\/b> in Savona; Les dialogues des Carm\u00e9lites<\/b> (Marquis de la Force) in Catania; Lakm\u00e9<\/b> (Frederick) in Palermo; Les\u00a0 <\/span>P\u00eacheurs de perles<\/b> (Zurga) in Venezia, Verona, al Teatro Real di Madrid, in Salerno\u00a0 <\/span>and on a tour in Japan for the Fenice di Venezia; I Cavalieri di Ekeb\u00f9<\/b> (Cristiano) of Zandonai in Trieste; Falstaff<\/b>\u00a0 <\/span>(Ford) in Verona and Cagliari; Le nozze di Figaro<\/b> in Hong Kong and Bilbao; Lucia di Lammermoor<\/b> (Enrico) in Bergamo, Japan, Li\u00e8ge, St. Gallen, Berlin Deutsche Opera, Dallas and at the Arts Center of Seoul; Carmen<\/b> (Escamillo) at the Opera Giocosa di Savona, at the San Carlo di Napoli, Las Palmas and the Regio di Torino; Giovanna d\u2019Arco<\/b> ed Alzira<\/b> in St. Gallen; Marino Faliero<\/b> of Donizetti in Bergamo and Sassari; H\u00e9rodiade<\/b> (H\u00e9rode) of Massenet in Bucarest,; Macbeth<\/b> at the Verdi di Sassari and St.Gallen; Beatrice di Tenda<\/b> at the Bellini di Catania; Un ballo in maschera<\/b> (Renato) at the Theater St. Gallen, the Teatro Regio di Parma, the Berlin Deutsche Oper, Essen, Frankfurt and Nantes; La Straniera<\/b> (Valdeburgo) at the Festpielhaus of Badend-Baden, Essen and at the Concertgebouw ofAmsterdam;\u00a0 <\/span>Attila<\/b> (Ezio) at the Theater St. Gallen and the Bellini di Catania; La forza del destino<\/b> (Don Carlo) at the Teatro Verdi di Pisa; L\u2019Africaine<\/b> (Nelusko) at the Teatro La Fenice di Venezia; Cavalleria rusticana<\/b> (Alfio) e Pagliacci<\/b> (Tonio) in Beijing, San Paolo del Brasile, at the ABAO of Bilbao and at the Oper Leipzig, Rigoletto<\/b> in Essen,\u00a0La Fanciulla del west<\/strong> (Jack Rance) at Festival Puccini di Torre del Lago, Il Trovatore<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0I due Foscari<\/strong>\u00a0at the Opernfestspiele Heidenheim.<\/p>\n He has collaborated with important conductors like: Arena, Arrivabeni, Bisanti, Callegari, Chung, De Bernart, Frizza, Fisch, Fogliani, Gatti, Guingal, Jurowski, Kovatchev, Langr\u00e8e, Luisotti, Maazel, McAdams, Nanasi, Oren, Palumbo, Renzetti, Santi, Steinberg, Villaume, Wellber, Viotti, Zanetti and directors such as:\u00a0Brockhaus, Cavani, Carsen, De Tomasi, Del Monaco, Fassini, Friedkin, Gasparon, Guth, Hilbrich, Krief, Loy, McVicar, Muscato, Pizzi, Pilavachi, Poda, Pontiggia, Pugelli, Sagi, Sparvoli, Rechi, Rigola, Tiezzi, Trevisi, Vizioli, Wilson<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Born in the Republic of San Marino, after graduating in engineering at the University of Bologna he studied singing with Paride venturi. 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