Michele Bianchini studied with Nino Carta, among others, and attended courses with Paola Molinari and Hisako Tanaka in Italy and with Armen Boyagian in New York. He has won praise for his vocal versatility as a bass and his histrionic ability. With rôles such as Don Alfonso, Sarastro, Alidoro, Selim in Il turco in Italia, the King in Aida, Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Leporello, and Ferrando in Il trovatore he has appeared in opera-houses in Rome, Bilbao, Athens, Bologna, as well as in Korea, the United States, New Zealand and Australia. He has collaborated with conductors such as Barbacini, Ferro, Gatti, Rovaris and Claudio Abbado, appearing in Madrid in Boito's Mefistofele. Rôles he has undertaken in Germany include that of Nabucco, and, in Schwerin, of the Doctor in Wozzeck.