He started working in opera as a voluntary assistant director in Italy with Stefano Vizioli [it] and Talmage Fauntleroy.

His official debut as opera stage director took place in 1994 in Cortona where he directed La finta giardiniera by Mozart.

Between 2006 and 2011 he was artistic director and founder of Spurio, an experimental project involving opera, filmmaking, video art and live performance, that culminated in the production of a feature film based on the myth of Orpheus with live music composed by Davide Fensi.

He currently has a long-time collaboration with the Opera Academy of the Royal Opera House in Copenhagen for which he has directed scenes and short works like: L'heure espagnole, Turn of the screw, Jules Massenet’s Manon, Dialogues des Carmelites, La bohème, Wozzeck.

He has also worked with the young singers of the Accademia della Scala and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.