Born in Parma 21/01/1965. During the highschool period he hopes to become an archeologist. He gets a degree in Law. Meanwhile he is a super in the theater, and movie critic for a local radio station, a waiter and a trolley driver.
He learns how to read music scores and studies German.
In 1992 he moves to Germany where he is assistant director at the Bonn Opera to Giancarlo Del Monaco, Juri Liubimov, Werner Schroeter, Robert Ciulli, Jügen Rose, Wolf Münzer and Werner Herzog, with whom he collaborates both in the theater as well as with movie productions. He collaborates with Steve Reich.
In the theater he has staged: “Il visconte dimezzato” by Italo Calvino (Parma,1985); “La donna alla finestra” by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (Parma, 1986); “Nel nome di Mozart” (Milan, 1991) “Lazarus” by Schubert (Milan, 1992); “La morte di San Giuseppe ovvero La Fenice al rogo” by Pergolesi (Milan, Cenobbio, Bonn, 1996); “Tosca” by Puccini (Cattolica, Cesena, 1997); “Bacocco e Serpilla” by Orlandini and “Colombina di Persicone” by Mancini (Piacenza, 2000)."Parsifal" di R.Wagner (Tokio 2002)
Films: "The World that we have lost" (2000); "Sandro Botticelli Painter of the Divine Comedy" (Italy/Germany 2000);"Midnight in Moscow" (2001); "Um Certo Brasil" (2002);"Travel with Vittorio Foa" (2003); "The Tenor'''s jacket" (2003);"Emergency Lessons" (2005); "That piece of Emilia,Beyond" (2005);"Doing it Together" (2005);"A Listening Leader" (2006); "Men and work:stories from the factory" (2007); "Stop on request" (2008); "Vittorio, for examole" (2010); "YIUANA" (2012).
"Il mondo che abbiamo perduto" (2000). "Botticelli e la Divina Commedia" (2000). "Mezzanotte a Mosca" (2001)."Um Certo Brasil" (2002). "La giacca del tenore" (2003). "Nostalgia del futuro-In viaggio con Vittorio Foa" (2003). "Lezioni d'''emergenza" (2005) "Fare insieme" (2005). "Quel pezzo d'''Emilia altrove" (2005)."Un leader in ascolto" (2006). "Fermata a richiesta" (2008). "Per esempio Vittorio" (2010). "YIUANA" (2012).