Enrico Iori studied as an opera singer at the Parma A. Boito Conservatory and was a member of the Accademia Verdiana of the Arturo Toscanini Foundation. In 1996 he took a vocal course at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, and received a diploma of merit. He also won the Busseto International Competition Voci Verdiane.
He made his début in Rome in Rigoletto, for which he won the International Città di Roma Competition. At the Teatro Ventidio Basso in Ascoli Piceno he participated in productions of Il trovatore and L’amico Fritz, and appeared at the Teatro Regio in Parma in La Bohème, Mozart’s Requiem and Un ballo in maschera. He has been a guest at the summer festival of San Gimignano and sang the rôle of Don Quixote in Manuel de Falla’s El retablo de Maese Pedro.