Born in Rome, Angelo Veccia He trained at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and, after winning the Battistini Competition in 1983 and 1984, he furthered his studies at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York. After debuting as a bass, he subsequently embarked on a career as a baritone, making his debut in 1988 as Silvio in Pagliacci.

He performed in the main Italian theatres: at La Scala Theater in Milan (Iphigénie en Tauride directed by Riccardo Muti; Madama Butterfly with Riccardo Chailly; Lucia di Lammermoor; Murder in the Cathedral; Gianni Schicchi; Teneke by Fabio Vacchi; Adriana Lecouvreur; Turandot), atArena of Verona (La Bohème, Pagliacci), to Municipal Theater of Bologna (Madama Butterfly, Macbeth, Tosca, La traviata), to Rome Opera House (The Barber of Seville, Amica, The Troubadour), to Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Turandot with Zubin Mehta, The Barber of Seville), at San Carlo of Naples (La Bohème, Tosca, Cavalleria rusticana), to Phoenix of Venice (La Bohème, L'Africaine, Tosca), al Opera Theater of Cagliari (Aida, Tosca, Macbeth), to Verdi Theater of Trieste (Ernani, La traviata, Macbeth, Tosca), to Royal Palace of Turin (La traviata, Oedipus Rex, Cavalleria rusticana) and to Carlo Felice of Genoa (Tosca, Aida).

His career has also taken him to international stages, including: Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden, Düsseldorf, Las Palmas, Lyon, Brussels, De Nederlandse Opera, Zurich, St. Gallen, Savonlinna, Aix-en-Provence, Monte Carlo, Sao Paulo and Tokyo.

Among his most recent and future engagements are: Macbeth in the circuit of Opera Lombardia, Palla de' Mozzi by Gino Marinuzzi at Opera Theater of Cagliari, Germont in La traviata a Trieste, Iago in Otello at the *Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and his debut as Barnaba in La Gioconda in Verona and on the opera circuit Opera Lombardia.

He has collaborated with conductors such as Andrea Battistoni, Giampaolo Bisanti, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Adam Fischer, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Oren, Nello Santi, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Marcello Viotti, and with directors like Pier'Alli, Hugo de Ana, Giuliano Montaldo, Luca Ronconi, Bob Wilson, Zhang Yimou.