After starting out at a very young age at a small company in Naples, I proceeded with the "Academy of Dramatic Art of Calabria" for one year, then at the prestigious "PICCOLO TEATRO SCHOOL OF MILANO DIRECTED BY GIORGIO STREHLER (now called Luca Ronconi school ) where I graduated after tree years course at the age of 23 and where I also studied Commedia dell'arte, mime, acting in various dialects, and took masterclasses with Marcel Marceau and Carolyn Carlson.Passionate about opera, operetta and traditional neapolitan repertoire since I was a teenager, I studied classical and modern singing with various teachers.Other workshops in that years: Meisner technique in New York in a summer course with James Price and a short but intense acting course with Nikita Mikhalkov.