Education and training:
Teachers: Gianni Raimondi, Carlo Bergonzi (Italy)
Competitions:
AsLiCo, Italy: 1st prize (2002)
Professional work:
Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe - permanent member
Principal roles:
Wagner: Die Walküre - Siegmund (Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Cologne with Gürzenich Orchestra under Markus Stenz, Shanghai's Expo)
Verdi: Tosca - Cavaradossi
Wagner: Götterdämmerung and Siegfried - Siegfried (Berlin State Opera, La Scala di Milano under Daniel Barenboim, Sevilla, Bavarian State Opera in Munich under Kent Nagano, Frankfurt Opera under Sebastian Weigle, Shanghai's Expo, Deutsche Oper Berlin under Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle and Donald Runnicles, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Bayreuth Festival under Kyrill Petrenko and Christian Thielemann, La fura del Baus in Sevilla, Salzburg Easter Festival under Sir Simon Rattle, Maggio Musicale in Florence and the Palau de les Arts in Valencia under Zubin Mehta, Strasbourg Opera under Claus Peter Flor and Marko Letonja, Vlaamse Opera in Ghent under Ivan Törsz)
Verdi: Otello (Frankfurt, Oslo, Hannover)
Puccini: Turandot - Calaf (Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam under Yannik Nézet-Seguin)
R. Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten - Kaiser
Giordano: Andrea Chénier
Beethoven: Fidelio - Florestan (Valencia, Vienna State Opera)
Ponchielli: La Gioconda - Enzo (Mannheim)
Wagner: Lohengrin (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Andris Nelson, Karlsruhe)
R. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos - Bacchus (State Opera in Dresden and in Vienna, Royal Opera House in London, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Metropolitan Opera New York, Cologne Opera)
Leoncavallo: Cavalleria rusticana - Turiddu (Rome)
Walter Braunfels: Die Vögel - Hoffegut (Teatro Lirico di Cagliari)
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer - Erik (Stuttgart, Bavarian State Opera in Munich)
Berlioz: Les Troyens - Énée (Valencia, St. Petersburg Marinskij Theatre, both under Valery Gergiev)
R. Strauss: Daphne - Apollo (Frankfurt Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Teatro Liceu Barcelona)
Bizet: Carmen - Don José (Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Vienna State Opera, Cologne)
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Kiel)
Janáček: Glagolitic Mass (Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Boulez)
Weber: Der Freischütz - Max (Barcelona)
Schönberg: Gurrelieder (Strasbourg, Paris under the baton of Marc Albrecht)
Verdi: La forza del destino - Alvaro (Cologne)
Wagner: Tannhäuser (Frankfurt Opera, Hamburg State Opera)
Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila - Samson (Cologne)
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde - Tristan (Frankfurt)
R. Strauss: Die Liebe der Danae - Midas (Frankfurt)
Further plans:
Britten: Peter Grimes (Wiesbaden)
Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Munich under Kyrill Petrenko, Barcelona under Josep Pons, Dresden under Christian Thielemann)
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde (Dortmund under Gabriel Feltz)
Verdi: Aida - Radamès (Cologne)
Verdi: Otello (Hungarian State Opera)
