He was born in Italy. He studied at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory (Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini) in Florence. He began his career as a violinist in the Orchestra of the May Music Festival of Florence (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino) (1991). He was then trained in orchestra direction at the Vienna Superior School for Music (Hochschule für Musik in Vienna),next to conductors Leopold Hager, Erwin Acél and Yugi Yuasa . He was discovered by conductor Zubin Mehta. Since 2001 he has directed operas and symphonic concerts in the most important theatres of Italy and Germany, such as: the Teatro Comunale of Florence, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Rome Opera (Teatro dell'Opera di Roma), the Bavaria State Orchestra (Munich), the Stuttgart Opera, the German Opera of Berlin (Deutsche Oper Berlin). He also directed in the Euskalduna Conference Centre and Concert Hall in the Basque Country (Bilbao), in the New Israeli Opera, the Opera Bastille (Paris) and the Grand Theatre, Warsaw. He first appeared in the U.S.A. directing The Elixir of Love [L'elisir d'amore] in the Opera Colorado (Denver, 2008). In 2009 he directed Madama Butterfly in the New National Theatre, Tokyo, and inaugurated with the same opera the artistic season of the Opera of Canada. The operas Lucia di Lammermoor, Nabucco, Aida, Tosca, The Troubadour [Il trovatore], La bohème, Dialogues of the Carmelites [Dialogues des carmélites], The Sleepwalker [La sonnambula], La Traviata, Mefistofele, Romeo and Juliet [Roméo et Juliette], A Masked Ball [Un ballo in maschera], The Barber of Seville [Il barbiere di Siviglia], Don Quixote, The Consul, Adriana Lecouvreur are included in