[1] He studied at the Conservatorio di Musica Arrigo Boito in Parma with the soprano Lucetta Bizzi[2] and at the Accademia Rossiniana with Alberto Zedda.

[3][4] Within the same year he appeared as Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Bassano Festival, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari and in Bologna, and Antonio in Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims.

[4] He first appeared as Carlo Gérard in Giordano's Andrea Chénier, alongside Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros, at the Bavarian State Opera in 2017.

[6] He appeared at the Metropolitan Opera also Luna in Il trovatore, La Traviata, and Verdi's Luisa Miller.

[2] A reviewer noted that he performed as a "gripping warlord, regicide and king", in the beginning hesitant, then as an "ever stronger ambitious usurper", with a "fantastically balanced, sonorous baritone", tension and intensity.