His family was of Italian descent but emigrated to Argentina. He received his education in Buenos Aires, partly with Apollo Granforte. He became an apprentice to the Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, in whose opera school he was trained by Mario Melani and Hina Spani. He performed for 13 seasons there before coming to Europe in 1962. He sang at with the Vienna Staatsoper, La Scala, and Festival in the Arena of Verona. During his career, he also appeared in London and Hamburg, in Madrid and Budapest, in San Francisco, Dallas and Philadelphia. His roles included Renato, Rigoletto, Macbeth Iago, Carlos in “La Forza del Destino, Falstaff, Scarpia, Gianni Schicchi, Figaro and Wolfram.
He sang Scarpia opposite both Pavarotti and Domingo and was recorded in Lohengrin with Christa Ludwig and Victoria de los Angeles.
His greatest success on record was a 1975 Philips album of Verdi’s Il Corsar, with Jessye Norman, Monserrat Caballe and Jose Carreras.
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