Christian Federici

Born in Trieste, Christian Federici made his debut in 2016 as Conte d’Almaviva Le Nozze di Figaro at Teatro Bonci in Cesena directed by Matelda Cappelletti and conducted by Claudio Desderi with whom he had studied at the Scuola di Musica in Fiesole. In October 2017 he returned to Teatro Bonci to sing the title role in Don Giovanni (Desderi/Cappelletti). In 2019 he made his debut in France singing Conte d’Almaviva Le Nozze di Figaro at the Opéra de Marseille.

Since then he has sung title role Don Giovanni (Ravenna, Rimini, Salerno, Catania), Sharpless Madama Butterfly (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Avignon), Jake Wallace La Fanciulla del West (Pavia, Como, Cremona), Turbo in Rufus Wainwright’s Hadrian (Teatro Real de Madrid), Escamillo Carmen (Kiel), Roberto I vespri siciliani (Teatro alla Scala Milan), Marcello La Bohème (Ravenna, Rimini, Ferrara, Pisa), Riccardo I puritani and Enrico Lucia di Lammermoor (Catania),

In 2024 he made UK debuts at the Royal Opera House as Angelotti Tosca and at Glyndebourne as Giorgio Germont La Traviata, followed by Figaro Le Nozze di Figaro (Torino), Marcello La Bohème (Sassaro), title role Don Giovanni (Catania) and Rodrigue Don Carlos (Kiel).

He has sung in important festivals in Italy including the Piccolo Festival of Friuli Venezia Giulia, the Ravenna Festival, Donizetti Festival in Bergamo and the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, and worked with conductors including Riccardo Muti, Fabio Luisi, Fabrizio Maria Carminati, Stefano Ranzani, Daniel Oren, Riccardo Frizza and Yves Abel.

In concert he has performed Mozart’s Krönungsmesse, Charpentier’s Te Deum and Messe de Minuit, Bach’s Magnificat and Matthäuspassion, and Rutter’s Mass of the Children. He has given recitals of Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, Schubert’s Winterreise and Schumann’s Dichterliebe with several pianists such as Filippo Gorini, Riccardo Risaliti and Elia Macrì

Christian Federici studied piano from the age of six, receiving diplomas from the Conservatories “G. Tartini” in Trieste and “J. Tomadini” in Udine. In 2013 he graduated in Computer Science at the University of Udine. He began studying voice in 2015 with the tenor Federico Lepre, and then with Claudio Desderi, Patrizia Ciofi and Gianfranco Montrésor.

Recent roles include Wainwright’s Hadrian at Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, title role Don Giovanni in Jesi and Novara. Plans include Mercutio in Gounod’s Romeo e Juliette in Trieste.