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He began his musical career as a bassoonist: after graduating with top marks from the “P. Mascagni” Music Institute in Livorno, Konzertdiplom at the Basel Music Academy in Bassoon under the guidance of Sergio Azzolini and specializing in baroque bassoon with Alberto Grazzi, he collaborated with various orchestras. In 2009 he began studying singing, then continued at the Santa Cecilia Music Academy in Portogruaro under the guidance of Claudio Desderi and at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa in the Ensemble Opera Studio.
His early engagements include Battistelli's Divorzio all'italiana at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Alidoro in La Cenerentola in Rovigo and Ferrara, Andrea Chénier at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Friar Lawrence in I Capuleti e i Montecchi conducted by Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante, with whom he immediately began a solid collaboration that allowed him to participate in several prestigious productions: Argenio in Handel's Imeneo at the Handel Festspiele in Halle (the recording of the opera was released by Glossa), Banco in the first version of Macbeth in Warsaw, Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria in Hamburg, Plutone in L'Orfeo in Hamburg, Barcelona, Madrid and Vienna.
Among the many productions in which he has taken part, we should mention La Gioconda and Rigoletto at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, La bohème (Colline) at the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv and at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Don Carlo conducted by Gianandrea Noseda and directed by Hugo De Ana at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Guillaume Tell (Melchtal) again with Maestro Noseda at the Regio in Turin and also on tour at the Edinburgh Festival and in Canada, again in Turin La donna Serpente di Casella conducted by Fabio Luisi, Il trovatore (Ferrando) and Norma (Oroveso), Carmen at the Baths of Caracalla and at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Don
Giovanni (Leporello) at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti, Il Turco in Italy (Selim) in the Opera Lombardia theaters, The Marriage of Figaro (Figaro) at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, L’elisir d’amore (Dulcamara) in Florence, Aida (Ramfis) at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Les Contes d'Hoffmann at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Messiah by Handel in Las Palmas, Petite Messe Solennelle in Montpellier, Ernani (Don Ruy Gomez de Silva) at the Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos in Lisbon.
Recent engagements: Agrippo by Vivaldi (Tisifaro) with the Europa Galante Orchestra conducted by Fabio Biondi at the Palau de la Musica in Valencia; La forza del destino (Marchese di Calatrava) for the inauguration of the Season with Maestro Riccardo Chailly at the Teatro alla Scala; Un ballo in maschera at the ROH in Muscat; L’italiana in Algeri (Mustafà) at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London; Carmen (Escamillo) at the Macerata Opera Festival; Lucia di Lammermoor in Lisbon; La bohème at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste; Verdi's Messa da Requiem with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano in Milan and on tour.
Upcoming projects: the world premiere of Filidei's The Name of the Rose and Rigoletto at the Teatro alla Scala; Aida in Lisbon; Il trovatore at the Opera Carlo Felice in Genoa.
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