After concluding the Scientific Lyceum studies with the highest score, he graduated in Choral Music and Conducting at Antonio Vivaldi Conservatoire (Alessandria, Italy), and he specialized in Orchestra Conducting (Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena; Verona Arena; Accademia Ottorino Respighi, Rome) with Maestro Franco Ferrara, who was teacher of Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly and some of the most prestigious Italian and European orchestra conductors.
He worked as Choir Conductor in some operas: La bohème (Giacomo Puccini) with Luciano Pavarotti, Tosca (Giacomo Puccini) with Raina Kabaivanska, Boris Godunov (Modest Mussorgsky), Otello (Giuseppe Verdi) with Nicola Martinucci, The Canterville Ghost by Claudio Scannavini and he was concertmaster and conductor for The Little Sweep by Benjamin Britten.
In January 2015 he was in the concert in honor of Karl Jenkins at Carnegie Hall in New York City as conductor of the choir,[3] and Distinguished Concerts International New York invited Carpegna on April 3, 2016 at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (Avery Fisher Hall) for the world premiere of his cantata Speculum Magiae for baritone, choir and orchestra conducted by Jonathan Griffith.
Active as a conference speaker, especially on Giacomo Puccini’s theatre (Manon Lescaut, Bohème,[4] Tosca, Butterfly,[5] Turandot,[6] Aida (Giuseppe Verdi), Carmen (Georges Bizet) with the cooperation of the Raina Kabaivanska’s opera students masterclass, published on DVDs[7]) he also organised the tutorial with Mirella Freni, The Puccinian Heroines (1994), and for the twenty-fifth anniversary of Luciano Pavarotti in theatres he collaborated in the documentary Luciano Pavarotti and the Italian Tenor (1989),[8] produced by the New York Center of Visual History and South Carolina Educational Television.
Carpegna wrote the manual To Make a Choir (Dino Audino ed., Rome, 2006)[10] and Commercial, a 30 Seconds Long Film (Franco Angeli ed., Milan, 2008)[11] both currently in use as university texts.