He studied there at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia,[2] piano with Velia De Vit, and composition with Luciano Pelosi.
He is interested in music of the 20th and 21st centuries,[2][4][5] such as Giorgio Battistelli, Ada Gentile, Ennio Morricone, Michele Dall'Ongaro [it], Marcello Panni [it] and Francesco Pennisi [it].
[3] In 2020, he conducted a DVD recording of Alfano's opera Risurrezione, directed by Rosetta Cucchi, with chorus and orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and Ana Victória Pitts and Anne-Sophie Duprels in leading roles.
[6] In 2022, he conducted a new production of Dallapiccola's Ulisse at Oper Frankfurt, directed by Tatjana Gürbaca,[4][7] with Iain MacNeil in the title role, Juanita Lascarro as Penelope and Danylo Matviienko as Antinoos.
[7] A reviewer from Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote that Lanzillotta was aware of details, did "not shy away from agglomerations of sound" ("scheut Klangballungen nicht"), but emphasized the flow of Ulisse's search for identity.