CURRICULUM VITAE
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He was born in Milan and he studied singing under Evelyn
Tubb in England, Margaret Hayward, Paolo Vaglieri and Bianca Maria
Casoni in Milan. He worked with ensembles like English Baroque Soloists,
Il Giardino Armonico, Il Complesso Barocco, The Consort of Musicke,
Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, Venice Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Aurora,
Il Concerto Italiano, Europa Galante, Capella Savaria, performing in the
most famous international festivals of Ancient Music and Opera Theatres
like Holland Festival Oude Muziek, Festival van Vlaanderen, York Early
Music Festival, Festival International de Musique Baroque Beaune, Brugge
Festival, Opéra de Lyon, Musica e Poesia a San Maurizio in Milan,
Berliner Tage fur Alte Musiek, London Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wiener
Konzerthaus, Berkeley Festival. He begun to sing Opera in 1993 at Teatro La Fenice in
Venice in Traetta's Buovo Dantona under the direction of
Alan Curtis. Then he sang and recorded the role of the Nutrice in
Monteverdi's Incoronazione di Poppea conducted by John Eliot Gardiner (Cremona, Rome, Vien, London). He took part to the John Eccles' Semele (Mayfield Opera
Festival), Peri's Euridice and Monteverdi's Orfeo (Teatro Regio di
Torino) and Marco Marazzoli's Capriccio (San Francisco). In summer 1996 he took part to the French tour with The
Nederlandse Bachvereniging singing Bach's Magnificat and A+ Messe under
Gustav Leonhardt. Then he sang for the Settimane Bachiane with Il
Giardino Armonico and Robert King. In 1997 he sang Bach's B-Messe all
around Holland with the Nederlandse Bachverenging conducted by Ivan
Fischer. In the winter 1998 he was Athamas in Handel's Semele for
Vlamse Opera conducted by Marc Minkowski and directed by Robert Carsen. In 1999 he sang Handel's Israele in Egitto in Copenhagen,
Stradella's Lo Schiavo Liberato at Modena Theatre and Liegi, La Morte di
Adone with Venice Baroque Orchestra under Andrea Marcon. In 2000 he performed Bach's Cantatas inn New York and
Boston under Gustav Leonhardt, Bach's Tilge, Hochster, meine Sunden with
Andrea Marcon, Stradella's Il Barcheggio in Rome and Milan with Ensemble
Pian & Forte, Handel's Siroe for Teatro La Fenice conducted by
Andrea Marcon directed by Jorge Lavelli. Last year he took part to Monteverdi's Incoronazione
conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini, a tour and recording of Stradella's
San Giovanni Battista with Claudio Astronio, a Spanish tour of Vivaldi's
Gloria and Magnificat conducted by Alessandrini, deutch cantatas arias
and duets from Handel's operas with Fantazyas, a vocal and instrumental
ensemble that he also conducts. In his career he recorded with: DG Archiv, Virgin
Classics, Harmonia Mundi France, Opus 111, Nuova Era, Arcana, Glossa,
Bongiovanni, Symphonia, Stradivarius, Arts, Tactus, Naxos and for many
European issuing broadcasts and television emittents.
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