Was born in Italy. He has performed, among others, Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Ferrando in Il trovatore, Padre Guardiano in La forza del destino, Filippo II in Don Carlo (Verdi), Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), Oroveso in Norma (Bellini), Escamillo in Carmen (Bizet), Fernando in Fidelio (Beethoven), Hagen and Wotan in Der Ring des Nibelungen, Gurnemanz in Parsifal (Wagner) and other roles, at the opera houses of Berlin, Milan, Vienna, Florence, Catania, Adelaide in Australia, Budapest and other venues.