Educated in the school of Elio Battaglia, under whose guidance he graduated from the Conservatory "Giuseppe Verdi "in Turin "cum lauda".

Winner of numerous competitions, national and international (Conegliano Veneto, Francisco Vinas, Prize "Mira Factors "), has to his credit a prestigious artistic carreer that sees him regularly as guest of the most important concert halls and theaters in the world, among them, the Metropolitan in New York, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Covent Garden in London, the State Opera, Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper and the Philharmonie Berlin, Salzburg Festival, Zurich Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper in Monaco, La Monnaie in Brussels, New National Theatre Tokyo, Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro dell'Opera and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Comunale di Bologna. In roles such as Figaro (Mozart and Rossini) Guglielmo Così fan tutte, Leporello and Don Giovanni, Dandini La Cenerentola, Malatesta Don Pasquale, Belcore, Dulcamara L'elisir d'Amore, Lord Henry Anna Bolena, Marcello La Boheme, Jack Rance La Fanciulla del West, Scarpia Tosca, Michele Il Tabarro, Schicchi Gianni Schicchi, Gerard Andrea Chenier, Valentino Faust, Germont La Traviata, Ford Falstaff, Amonasro Aida, Marquis of Posa Don Carlos, Iago Otello, Macbeth, Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, Telramund Lohengrin, Der Fliegende Holländer, Golaud Pelleas et Melisande, Eugene Onegin and Wozzeck. 

He has collaborated with imporant conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly, Miung-Whun Chung, Colin Davis, John Eliot Gardiner, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Daniele Gatti, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa Antonio Pappano, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Jeffrey Tate. 

His recent engagements include two important debuts on the stage of the ROH Covent Garden in London, in a new production of Puccini's triptych, respectively, the title role in Gianni Schicchi and the role of Michael in Il Tabarro. He also played at the Zurich Opera Tosca, Otello at La Fenice in Venice, Il Tabarro with the Sveriges Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Harding, Amica at the Opéra de Monte Carlo, Nabucco (debut title role) at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, and has debuted the role of Renato in Un ballo in maschera at the Chorégies of Orange. 

He began the season 2013/14 playing the role of Ford in Falstaff at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, later he returned to Copenhagen to play Otello (Iago) and returned to the Teatro Comunale di Bologna Parsifal (Klingsor) and Nabucco at the Grand Theatre of Geneva. He also starred Don Giovanni (title role) and Erl Andrea Chénier at the Zurich Opera. Among his future engagements includes the opera Cavalleria Rusticana in Florence, in the title role in Falstaff in Stockholm, Fedora at the Carlo Felice in Genoa, Simon Boccanegra in Frankfurt, L'Elisir d'amore in Zurich, La Wally Opera de Monte Carlo, The triptych and at Covent Garden in London. 

He made also an intensive concert carreer with lieder and oratorio. He has taught vocal technique at the Academy Pescara Music and teaches  master courses at the  "Hugo Wolf Accademy " in Acquasparta directed by Maestro Elio Battaglia. He brought on stage Hommage to Frank Sinatra with Claudio Chiara Jazz Quintet. 

He has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Sony, Decca and Fonit Cetra (Warner).