Christian Federici

Born in 1987 in Trieste, Christian Federici studied piano from the age of six. After a graduation in Computer Science, he began studying opera singing in 2015 with the tenor Federico Lepre, then with Claudio Desderi at the School of Music of Fiesole, Patrizia Ciofi, and Gianfranco Montrésor.

He debuted in 2016 as Count of Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro in Cesena, conducted by Claudio Desderi, with whom he did Don Giovanni (as title-role) in 2017. After winning international competitions at Teatro Lirico Sperimentale “Adriano Belli” in Spoleto and “Toti Dal Monte” in Treviso (2018), he sang Nozze di Figaro in Treviso, Jesi, and Ferrara as Count of Almaviva, a role he also played in 2019 with his debut in France at the Opéra de Marseille.

From 2019 to 2021, he joined renowned festivals in Italy, such as Ravenna Festival, Donizetti Festival in Bergamo, and Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago. In 2021, he made his debut at the Opera Hong Kong and Opéra Grand Avignon as Sharpless in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.

He recently sang the role of Turbo in the contemporary opera Hadrian by Rufus Wainwright at Teatro Real de Madrid, Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen in Kiel, Mozart’s Don Giovanni (as title-role) and Così fan tutte (Don Alfonso) in Ravenna, Rimini, and Salerno, Roberto in Verdi’s I vespri siciliani at Teatro Alla Scala Milan, Marcello in Puccini’s La Bohème in Ravenna, Rimini, Ferrara, and Pisa, Figaro in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Riccardo in Bellini’s I Puritani, and Enrico in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor in Catania.

He worked with famous conductors including Riccardo Muti, Fabio Luisi, Fabrizio Maria Carminati, Stefano Ranzani, Daniel Oren, Riccardo Frizza, Yves Abel, and important stage directors such as Hugo de Ana, Chiara Muti, Vincent Boussard, and Daniel Benoin.

Appreciated also in chamber music, he did several recitals of the greatest German repertoire masterpieces like Schubert’s Winterreise, Schumann’s Dichterliebe, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with well-known pianists such as Riccardo Risaliti and Filippo Gorini, and performed in concert Mozart’s Krönungsmesse, Bach’s Matthäuspassion, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, and Rutter’s Mass of the Children. Since 2022, he has collaborated with the pianist Elia Macri.

After this, he performed Sharpless in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at Shanghai Opera House, Germont in Glyndebourne in Verdi’s La Traviata, and Figaro in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at Teatro Regio in Torino.