The Palermo-born tenor made his professional debut as Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni in Padua. He soon appeared on many of the world’s most distinguished stages, including La Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Paris Opéra, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Vienna State Opera, the Theater an der Wien, the Bavarian State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Berlin State Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and the New National Theatre in Tokyo. He has also been a frequent guest at the Salzburg, Lucerne, and Baden-Baden Festivals. Over the course of his career, he has collaborated with such eminent conductors as Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur, James Levine, Daniel Barenboim, and Sir Antonio Pappano. His repertoire includes  the principal Mozart roles of Tamino, Don Ottavio, Ferrando, Belmonte and Tito, as well as Mitridate, which he has made his seasonal debut at the Opéra de Lausanne. It further includes Gluck's Orphée and Pylades in Iphigénie en Tauride; Tebaldo in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi; Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor and Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore by Donizetti; the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, Alfredo in La Traviata, and Fenton in Falstaff by Verdi; Rodolfo in Puccini's La Bohème; Roméo in Roméo et Juliette and the title role in Faust by Gounod; as well as Pelléas in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and Nadir in Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles.