 According to Grove, he studied at the training school of La Scala, Milan and joined the Covent Garden Opera company in 1954, singing Monterone in Verdi's Rigoletto, which he was still singing in the 1970s, among 60 roles he undertook with the company.He created Claggart in Britten's Billy Budd (1962).In 1966 he sang at the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires.