Francesco studied Orchestral Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music (London) with Sir Colin Davis and Colin Metters, at the Accademia Chigiana with Gianluigi Gelmetti and at the Accademia Musicale di Stresa with Gianandrea Noseda. 

In 2015 Francesco made his debut at the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice with La Scala di seta, and in the symphonic season of Orchestre d’Auvergne in France.

Between 2016  and 2019: Così fan tutte at Oper Koeln (DE); Mefistofele in Pisa, Lucca and Rovigo; Così fan tutte in Pavia and Como, Macbeth-Young Project in Florence; Il cappello di paglia di Firenze in Pisa, Livorno, Lucca, Rovigo and Padova; Carmen in New Zealand; Madama Butterfly at Opera di Firenze; Trovatore in Trieste; L'italiana in Algeri in Pisa; Il barbiere di Siviglia in Lübeck; Un giorno di regno with Festival Verdi in Parma; Mosé in Egitto in Pisa, Novara and Winland Festival in Beijing; concert in Lübeck, Don Giovanni in Pisa.

In 2020/21 Don Giovanni in Trento, Aida in Como, Werther in Como, Pavia, Cremona, Brescia, Modena.

In 2021/22: Werther in Reggio Emilia, Ferrara and Pisa; Mefistofele in Modena and Piacenza; his first book “La Regina della notte” was published by Rizzoli-Mondadori.

In 2023: Werther at Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Il barbiere di Siviglia in Jesi, Pisa and Lucca.

Previous operatic engagements include Il Matrimonio Segreto and Die Zauberfloete at the Teatro Regio in Torino, La Scala di Seta at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, La bohème and Madama Butterfly with the New Zealand Opera, Il barbiere di Siviglia at Stresa Festival, La traviata and L'Italiana in Algeri at the Teatro di Como AsLiCo, Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni at the Teatro di Pisa, L’elisir d’Amore at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, at the Teatro di Sassari and at the RNCM (Manchester). He is a visiting professor at the National Opera Studio in London for the Italian operatic repertoire.

Francesco is also a regular guest in the symphonic season of the ORT-Orchestra della Toscana, the OGI Orchestra Giovanile Italiana, the I Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic Manchester, the RNCM Symphony Orchestra-Manchester, the I Virtuosi del Teatro alla Scala, the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino and the Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, performing with soloists like Boris Belkin, Francesca Dego, Bruno Canino and Marie-Josèphe Jude.

Francesco has been the assistant of Gianluigi Gelmetti, Gianandrea Noseda, Sir Colin Davis and Trevor Pinnock at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Opéra de Monte Carlo,

Stresa Festival. In 2009 he attended the LSO Discovery Scheme, having the chance to conduct Brahms III Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra.

He was awarded the “Diploma d’onore” from Accademia Chigiana, and the “Henry Wood” Prize at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He has a Magna cum Laude Master Degree in Philosophy at the University of Pisa.

He was awarded the “Diploma d’onore” from Accademia Chigiana, and the “Henry Wood” Prize at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He has a Magna cum Laude Master Degree in Philosophy at the University of Pisa.

He was awarded the “Diploma d’onore” from Accademia Chigiana, and the “Henry Wood” Prize at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He has a Magna cum Laude Master Degree in Philosophy at the University of Pisa.

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