Christian Federici

Born in 1987 in Trieste, Christian Federici made his debut 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 (Shanahan/Boussard). In 2021 he made his debut for Opera Hong Kong as Sharpless Madama Butterfly (Abel/Maestrini) and sang the same role for Opéra de Avignon (Jean/Benoin). Roles in 2022 included Jake Wallace La Fanciulla del West in Pavia, Como and Cremona (Galli/Cigni), Turbo in Hadrian by Rufus Wainwright at Teatro Real, Madrid, Escamillo in Kiel, Mozart’s Don Giovanni (title role), and Don Alfonso Così fan tutte in Ravenna, Rimini and Salerno. In 2023 he made his debut at Teatro all Scala as Roberto I vespri siciliani, and sang Figaro Le nozze di Figaro and Riccardo I puritani (Catania), Marcello (Ravenna), Morales Carmen (Arena di Verona), and the title role Don Giovanni (Trieste).

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.

In concert he has sung 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 Winterreiseand Schumann’s Dichterliebe with several pianists such as Filippo Gorini and Riccardo Risaliti.

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.

Earlier this year he sang Enrico Lucia di Lammermoor (Catania) and plans for the rest of the year include his debut at the Royal Opera House as Angelotti Tosca, Sharpless (Shanghai Opera), his Glyndebourne debut as Germont Père La Traviata and Figaro Le nozze di Figaro (Teatro Regio di Torino).