Considerato come uno dei più eleganti e completi cantanti belcantisti sulla scena lirica di oggi, è apparso in tutti i più grandi teatri del mondo: Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera di Chicago, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerishe Staatsoper di Monaco di Baviera, Théâtre des Champs-
Élysées and Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Opernhaus in Zurich, Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Semperoper in Dresden, Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Liceu in Barcelona, etc.
He regularly collaborates with the world’s leading conductors and directors, including:
Roberto Abbado, Richard Bonynge, Daniele Callegari, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Sir Colin Davis, Hugo de Ana, Giancarlo del Monaco, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Davide Livermore, David McVicar, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, John Nelson, Gianandrea Noseda, Antonio
Pappano, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Michel Plasson, Georges Pretre, Stefano Ranzani, Sir Simon Rattle, Luca Ronconi, Claudio Scimone, Jeffrey Tate, Alberto Zedda, etc…
After dominating the international scene in the bel canto repertoire (Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti), in recent seasons he has triumphed in: La Damnation de Faust with the San Francisco Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Welsh National Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw; Benvenuto Cellini with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Colin Davis;
Norma (Pollione) at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome conducted by Nagano, in Barcelona, Venice, Munich, Liège, and Bilbao; Das Lied von der Erde at Carnegie Hall in New York; Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in Lima, Palermo, and conducted by Chung in Florence; I vespri siciliani in Turin conducted by Noseda, in French in Naples, Bilbao, and Valencia; Les Huguenots in Strasbourg; Un ballo in maschera in Turin and Bologna; Verdi’s Otello at La Fenice in Venice, in Japan and at the Palazzo Ducale conducted by Chung, in Valencia conducted by Zubin Mehta, in Turin conducted by Noseda, in Genoa, Seville, Madrid, London, Pamplona, and Paris; Aida in São Paulo, Brazil, at the Arena di Verona, and in Madrid; Peter Grimes conducted by Pappano at Santa Cecilia and in Valencia; Les Troyens with Pappano and McVicar at La Scala in Milan; La forza del destino conducted by Zubin Mehta in Valencia and Dresden; Il Trovatore in Venice, La Coruña, and London; Luisa Miller in Liège; Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci in Bilbao; Samson et Dalila in Turin, Valencia, Seville, Moscow, and at the Metropolitan in New York; Manon Lescaut in Bilbao, Turin, Barcelona, in Japan with the Rome Opera, and in Dallas; Andrea
Chénier in Rome and Bilbao; Turandot (Calaf) in concert in Tel Aviv conducted by Mehta and, directed by Zeffirelli, at the Arena di Verona.
He made his European debut as a conductor at the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo with Maria di Rohan (released on DVD by Bongiovanni) and conducted Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice and a symphonic concert at the Opéra de Nice.
Among his recent and upcoming engagements: Ernani in Lisbon, Piacenza, Ferrara, and Reggio Emilia; Turandot, Otello, Luisa Miller, and Andrea Chénier at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; La forza del destino at the Verdi Festival in Parma; Il Trovatore and Aida at the Los Angeles Opera; Turandot at the Real in Madrid.
at the Arena di Verona, the Opéra de Paris, and the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago; Otello at the Liceu in Barcelona, the Vienna State Opera, Munich, Covent Garden in London, Dresden, Piacenza, Modena, Reggio Emilia, the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, the Bellini in Catania, and the Colón in Buenos Aires; Aida, Andrea Chénier, and Il Trovatore in Vienna; Le Prophète in Berlin; Don Carlos in Liège; Messa da Requiem conducted by Zubin Mehta in Tel Aviv; Aida, Turandot, La fanciulla del west
and Die große Stille in Hamburg; I Pagliacci in Dresden, Parma, Bologna, and Venice; Aida at the Cincinnati Opera, the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, and the Arena di Verona; Les Troyens in Munich; Il Tabarro (Luigi) and Tosca at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome conducted by Michele Mariotti; La
Juive and Andrea Chénier at the Teatro Regio in Turin; Billy Bud at the Vienna State Opera; Andrea Chénier at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and in Parma.