He was born in Casalecchio di Reno (Italy) on 10/07/1925. He was initially self-taught, but later on he took vocal lessons in Bologna. Since 1950 he appeared in small theatres in the Italian province of Emilia. In 1954 he first appeared in Milan’s Teatro Nuovo, in the opera Rigoletto. In 1956 he began a long collaboration with Milan’s La Scala, initially performing the role of Amonasro (Aida). He continued with the operas Iphigénie en Tauride (as Orestes, 1957, directed by Luchino Visconti), Macbeth (1958), Assassinio nella cattedrale by Ildebrando Pizzetti (1958, world premiere presentation directed by Margarete Wallmann), Beatrice di Tenda (as Filippo Maria Visconti, 1961, together with the debutant Joan Sutherland), Ernani (Don Carlo), Tosca (Scarpia), Carmen (Escamillo). He also sang in Genoa’s Teatro Margherita, Teatro Regio di Torino, the municipal theatres in Florence and Bologna and the Spoleto Festival (1958, Macbeth). He also appeared in Vienna, Monte Carlo in 1961 as Rigoletto; 1964 as Don Carlo (La forza del destino), Amsterdam (1960, Nabucco), Lisbon. His repertoire also included the roles of Sir Riccardo Forth (I puritani), Renato (Un ballo in maschera), Teseo (Fedra, by Pizzetti), Gérard (Andrea Chénier), Tonio (Pagliacci). In his rich discography his standout performance is Iphigénie en Tauride (1957), a “live” recording from Milan’s La Scala with Maria Callas as his co-star. He died in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe (Caribbean) on 03/03/2007. He collaborated with the GNO performing the parts of Rigoletto (1957-1958, 1958-1959) and Amonasro in the opera Aida at the inauguration of the newly constructed Olympia Theatre (January 1958). // Last update of the biography: October 2024 - The list of productions below is complete.