Bass /bass-baritone

Born in Switzerland, studies in Germany and Italy (with Desider Kovats and Enzo Mascherini ) he has performed in opera and concert wordwide - "opera de paris" (la boheme, the bat, tales of hofmann), opera di roma (elektra), scala di milano (ariodante), torino, venezia, palermo, maggio fiorentino florence (tannhäuser, rheingold), staatsoper vienna (manon, entführung aus dem serail), salzburg festival (carmen, don giovanni, titus, idomeneo), zurich opera (fidelio, hoffman), amsterdam (meistersinger) brussels (magic flute, entführung, wozzeck), barcelona, lisboa, madrid, covent garden london (king priam- title role) nuovo piccolo milano (opening 1998 "cosi fan tutte" with Giorgio Strehler) etc. Overseas engagements in san francisco, chicago, seattle, portland, long island festival NY., capetown, santiago de chile, tokyo, etc.

He has worked with conductors like karajan, ozawa, abbado, varviso, colin davis, zedda, matacic, rilling, sawallisch, baudo, dohnany, rostropovich,santi, fischer, gavazzeni, kubelik, oren etc. Numerous recordings (carmen, don giovanni, bruckner te deum, wozzeck, lady macbeth, samson, rigoletto, merry wives of windsor, christelflein, geroldstein, requiem verdi etc) films and tv productions (don giovanni, damnation de faust, capriccio, zaubergeige, the emperor of atlantis, merry wives, cosi fan tutte, les troyens, etc) concerts, oratorios and recitals worldwide.