Bass-baritone
Born in Susa (Italy), he started studying voice with Valter Carignano and Susy Dardo. Between 1996 and 1998 he attended the international master classes «Polifophonie vocale en Cevènne» under the guidance of Maurice Bourbon. In 2004 he got his voice diploma at Conservatory «G. Verdi» in Turin.
In 2005 he won the international contests «Toti Dal Monte» and «Riccardo Zandonai». Further he won the contest «Concorso Internazionale di Canto Lirico e da Camera Città di Vercelli», the contest «Roero in Musica», the international contest «Johannes Brahms» and in 2007 he was awarded the «Eberhard Wächter» Medal (Austria) for the best young singer of the season 2006/7.
After his debut in 1998 in Prima la Musica e poi le Parole by A. Salieri his career has gone on with Don Profondo in Il Viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Dottor Malatesta in Don Pasquale at the Teatro Comunale Treviso, Pisa and Rovigo; Alidoro in Cenerentola at Teatro Verdi in Trieste; Guglielmo in Così Fan Tutte conducted by Roberto Abbado in Saint Paul (U.S.A.), Marcello in La Bohème at the festival Luglio Musicale Trapanese; Leporello in Don Giovanni at the Stadttheater in Klagenfurt (Austria); Marcello in La Bohème at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Don Alfonso in Così Fan Tutte and Don Alvaro in Il Viaggio a Reims at La Scala; Belcore in L'Elisir d'Amore at Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna; Alfonso in Lucrezia Borgia at Teatro Regio in Turin; Prince de Bouillon in Adriana Lecouvreur in Racconigi Castle in Turin (production Teatro Regio); Montano in Otello under Riccardo Muti at the Salzburger Festspiele; Riccardo in I Puritani at Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Prefetto in Linda di Chamonix at Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo and Schaunard in La Boheme at Covent Garden London, Dulcamara in L'Elisir d'Amore and Orbazzano in Tancredi at Teatro Regio in Turin.
Among his future engagements: Nardo in La Finta Giardiniera at Al Ain Classics Festival in Abi Dhabi, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor at Teatro Regio in Turin, Leporello in Don Giovanni at La Fenice in Venice, Severo in Poliuto at Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo and Monterone in Rigoletto at La Bastille in Paris.