Rubens Pelizzari studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Riva del Garda and with Adriana Lazzarini, taking first prize in 1998 in the Mantua Ismaele Voltolini Competition and in 2001 the Festival della Lirica in Sanremo, with second prize in the Flaiano Labò Competition.

He made his début in 2001 as Ismaele in Nabucco at the San Giminiano Festival, singing Cavaradossi in Tosca there the following year. In 2003 he sang Manrico in Il trovatore, Rodolfo in La bohème and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, appeared in concert in Paris and took part in Puccini’s Messa di Gloria in Genoa. In 2004 he was Arrigo in I vespri siciliani in Palermo, and in the same year sang Manrico in Novara and Alessandria, Pinkerton with the Maribor Opera and Alvaro in La forza del destino in Busseto. He has sung Radames in Aida in Hanover, Corrado in Il corsaro in Genoa, Pollione in Norma in Merida, Foresto in Attila in Vienna, Alfredo in La traviata in Portugal and Ismaele in Como, Bergamo, Cremona, Pavia and Brescia. In 2006 he sang Don Alvaro in Piacenza, Manrico in Ancona, Pinkerton in Berne, Radames at the Luglio Musicale Trapanese, and Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana in the San Gimignano Festival.