He was born in Rome in 1929 and died in 1990. He studied voice in Rome under Armando Piervenanzi and Giuseppe Sorge and his singing followed the standards of Battistini and De Luca. He made his debut in 1953, at the Teatro Eliseo of Rome, as Silvio [Pagliacci]. In 1956, he appeared in Lucca as Figaro [The Barber of Seville/Il barbiere di Siviglia] and in 1957 he made his first appearance at La Scala of Milan. His career included appearances in prominent Italian and European opera houses. Over the years 1959-1985, he appeared in Lisbon, Naples, Dublin, Cairo, Zagreb, Amsterdam, Strasbourg, Bologna, Budapest, Brussels, Geneva, Parma, Kyoto, Turin, Genoa, Palermo, Bari, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Essen, Wiesbaden, Valencia, etc. He appeared at the "Puccini" Festival (1960), the Glyndebourne Festival as Marcello [La bohème] (1967) and the Festival of Terme di Caracalla as Giorgio Germont [La traviata] (1966) and as Jack Rance [The Girl of the West/La fanciulla del West] (1972). His repertory included the roles: Sharpless [Madama Butterfly], De Siriex [Fedora], Lescaut [Manon Lescaut], Conte di Luna [The Τroubadour/Il trovatore], Baron Scarpia [Tosca], Belcore [The Elixir of Love/L' elisir d'amore], Enrico [Lucia di Lammermoor], Jago [Othello/Otello], Gianni Schicchi and Rigoletto in the namesake operas, Alfio [Rustic Chivalry/Cavalleria rusticana], Escamillo [Carmen], etc. Recordings of the works La bohème, Adriana Lecouvreur, Cavalleria rusticana and Tosca are still in circulation, digitally remastered (Decca, RCA-Balkanton, Rodolphe Records, Bongiovanni, etc.). He collaborated with the GNO once, as Figaro [The Barber of Seville] (1970-71).