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He begins his musical activity as a child singing in the Chorus of Treble Voices of La Scala Theater in Milan. He studies lyric song at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan, and attends the Katia Ricciarelli International Lyric Academy and the Higher Training Courses of the Arturo Toscanini Foundation of Parma. In 1991 he wins First Prize in the IXth Agostino Lazzari National Song Competition of Genoa. In 1994 he wins the XVth Mattia Battistini National Song Competition of Rieti, where he makes his debut in Donizetti’s The Elixir of love (Belcore) under the direction of Franca Valeri, in the Flavio Vespasiano Theater. In 1998 he is the winner of “Youth Opera in Europe” International Selections, and in 2001, of those [selections] of Lyric City Opera Studio. He participates as a singer-actor in the production of Goethe’s Faust under the direction of Giorgio Strehler, in the Studio Theater in Milan. He records the show Mefisto’s songs (lieder by Beethoven, Liszt, and Wagner) for the cultural channel Tele +3. Over the years he makes his debut in more than forty principal roles in operas of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century repertoire, tackling works of the ‘600s and contemporary works as well (also with premier performances). An interpreter of lieder and of sacred and symphonic music, he sings in important theaters in Italy and abroad: the Principality of Monaco, France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Peru, Mississippi and Louisiana (United States), Brazil, and Japan. In 2005 he leaves the profession of lyric singer (Beethoven’s IX th Symphony in Tokyo), to devote himself entirely to directing.
After several years of experience as a stage manager and assistant director in theaters of italian tradition, he makes his directorial debut, quickly reaching collaboration with Theaters and Foundations of prestige in National (Foundation Gran Teatro La Fenice of Venezia, Teatro Piccolo Regio of Torino, Teatro Municipale of Piacenza, Foundation “Arturo Toscanini” of Parma, Foundation Teatro Comunale of Modena, Foundation Teatro Coccia of Novara, Teatro Sociale of Mantova, Organization “Luglio Musicale” of Trapani, Teatro Sociale of Rovigo) and International (Japan, USA, Guatemala, Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Uruguay and Switzerland) territory. He experiments the first opportunity in Historical Theaters in Tuscany (Telemann’s The Schoolmaster, Coffee Cantata by Bach, Livietta and Tracollo, The Music master and La Serva padrona by Pergolesi, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, The Elixir of love and Don Pasquale by Donizetti, Lacagnina’s A Head without world – premier). In 2002, for the Lyric Season of the Vittoriale Theater in Gardone Riviera, he directs The Barber of Seville. At the Galuppi Festival, in collaboration with the La Fenice Grand Theater Foundation of Venice, he creates a new production of Bastien and Bastienne and of The Sly peasant by Hasse-Pergolesi. In 2003, he makes his debut at the Piccolo Regio [theater] in Turin by staging Donizetti’s comic opera Rita. At the Golden Harlequin Festival in Mantua (Tea Palace), in collaboration with the Municipal Theater of Piacenza and the Arturo Toscanini Foundation of Parma, he proposes directing Salieri’s Harlequinade (set design by Eugenio Guglielminetti). In 2004, on the occasion of the centennial of its premier, he is called to Fukuoka (Japan) to stage Puccini’s Madame Butterfly in Fukuoka Hall; this event is picked up by Japanese State TV NHK (Channel 3), broadcast [as] a special in the Art Theater program and permanently screened at the Madame Butterfly Museum of Nagasaki (Japan). In Modena, for Mu. Vi. - Pavarotti International, and in collaboration with the Public Theater Foundation of Modena, he undertakes the direction of Puccini’s La Bohème (conductor: Leone Magiera); this work is also picked up and broadcast on recorded TV. He opens the 2006 Lyric Season of the Coccia Theater Foundation of Novara with Madame Butterfly (conductor: Marcello Rota) which follows, in 2007, the setting of The Merry Widow by Lehár (with revision and adaptation of the Libretto). He opens the 160 th Lyric Season of the Social Theater in Mantua with Madame Butterfly (conductor: Fabrizio Maria Carminati). With Verdi’s La Traviata (conductor: Dennis Assaf), he completes a tour between Louisiana and Mississippi (U.S.A.). On the 150th anniversary of the birth of Giacomo Puccini, he presents The Fairies for the 2007 Lyric Season of the Social Theater in Mantua and, in 2008, for the Coccia Theater Foundation of Novara. He stages (in the presence of the author) Tutino’s Musical The Puss in boots (conductor: Fabio Maestri) in the 61th Lyric Season of the July Musical Society of Trapani - Traditional Theater. He appears with Madame Butterfly (conductor: Martin Lebel) at the Solis Theater in Montevideo (Uruguay); the opera is picked up and broadcast direct from the national network (TV Ciudad). He opens the 2008/2009 Lyric Season of the Coccia Theater Foundation of Novara with Puccini’s Tosca (set design by Luisa Spinatelli), which he repeats at the Social Theater in Mantua. At the Social Theater in Rovigo, he again stages The Fairies, which is recorded and broadcast on the national network (Channel 5) on the television program Loggione. In 2008, he presents Verdi’s Rigoletto and in 2009 he presents Puccini’s Turandot (conductor: Bruno D’Astoli) for the first time ever in the following Capitals: Guatemala City (Guatemala - National Theater), San Salvador (El Salvador - National Theater), Panama City (Panama’- Anayansi Theater), San Jose’ (Costa Rica - Melico Salazar Theater), and Managua (Nicaragua - National Theater). In 2010, he debuts Bizet’s Carmen (conductor: Tulio Gagliardo) at the Regina’s Theater of Cattolica. Inspired by Puccini's homonymous opera and designed by himself, he directs the show Madama Butterfly - The broken wings of a tenuous butterfly at the Tsumagoy Center Yamaha of Kakegawa (Japan) and at the Valle d'Aosta Region (conductor: Guido Maria Guida). He opens and concludes the Opera Season at the Teatro Nacional Solis of Montevideo (Uruguay) with Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart (conductor: Federico Garcia Vigil). All the performances are recorded and broadcasted by TV Ciudad (nacional network). He is director of the First Edition of the Rigoletto Festival in Mantua. With the Oedipus auf Kolonos of Mendelssohn Bartoldy (Oedipus, Mauro Avogadro), He opens the 2010/2011 Music's Season of the "Stefano Tempia" (Italy’s oldest concert-choral association) in the Hall of the Nacional Conservatory of Music "Giuseppe Verdi" in Turin.
Of major importance also educational activities for which cooperates with the following Institutions:
State
Conservatory of Music “Francesco Cilea” of Reggio Calabria;
C.U.T. -
Theatrical University Center in Milan;
Universidad
de la Republica - Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación y Humanities of
Montevideo (Uruguay);
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