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.
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Le Nozze di Figaro (Marseille)
Le Nozze di Figaro (Treviso)
Sharpless (Hong Kong)
Artist Videos
La Traviata/Glyndebourne/October 2024
“Christian Federici proved a revelation as Germont père, his mellifluous timbre as easy on the ear as it was subtly expressive of the taciturn and conflicted figure he played.” Opera Magazine, January 2025
“In the two big confrontations, meanwhile she is matched, in the other great performance of the night, by Christian Federici’s Germont. Handsome of voice and presence, he sings with unforced lyricism and exemplary dynamic control. Di Provenze, given in this instance in full, can so often seem anticlimactic after everything that has gone before, but here we really sit up and listen. He’s a good actor, too, giving us a finely considered – and unusually sympathetic – portrait of a man confronting the disastrous consequences of his own inflexible morality”. Guardian
“… the exhilarating, star-making performance by Christian Federici in his Glyndebourne debut as the villain of the piece, Père Germont. His beautifully phrased, ideally controlled singing commands the action seemingly without effort, and physically he makes complete dramatic sense of a man who goes badly wrong while trying to do the right thing. His relationship with Violetta is as vivid as it is, phrase by phrase, utterly touching.” The Stage
“Christian Federici is wonderful as Giorgio Germont — a man doing what he believes is right, however misguided — and gives an authoritative performance full of shade and nuance.” The Times
“Christian Federici completes the trio of Italian principals…Federici is as fine a baritone in this role as I have heard. Exquisitely rich, clarion, and beautifully orotund, he possesses a remarkable instrument…He presents as an austere, business-like authoritarian, but melts into compassion in his interactions with Violetta, his voice displaying evocative phrasing and colour. I first heard Federici at the Royal Opera House as Angelotti in Tosca where I opined I would like to hear more of him. I am delighted to have been afforded the opportunity to do so here.” OperaWire
Opera Repertoire
| COMPOSER | OPERA | ROLE |
|---|---|---|
| Bellini | Beatrice di Tenda | Filippo |
| Bellini | I Puritani | Riccardo |
| Bizet | Carmen | Escamillo |
| Donizetti | Don Pasquale | Malatesta |
| Donizetti | L'elisir d'amore | Belcore |
| Donizetti | Lucia de Lammermoor | Enrico |
| Giordano | Andrea Chénier | Gerard |
| Korngold | Die tote Stadt | Frank-Fritz |
| Leoncavallo | Pagliacci | Silvio/Tonio |
| Mozart | Così fan tutte | Guglielmo |
| Mozart | Don Giovanni | Don Giovanni |
| Mozart | Le Nozze di Figaro | Il Conte d'Almaviva |
| Puccini | La Bohème | Marcello |
| Puccini | La Fanciulla del West | Jake Wallace |
| Puccini | Madama Butterfly | Sharpless |
| Puccini | Tosca | Scarpia |
| Rossini | Il signor Bruschino | Gaudenzio |
| Stravinsky | The Rake's Progress | Nick Shadow |
| Verdi | Rigoletto | Rigoletto |
| Verdi | La Traviata | Germont père |
| Wainwright, Rufus | Hadrian | Turbo |
