Christian Federici

Born in 1987 in Trieste, Christian Federici made his debut in 2016 as Count of Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro by W. A. Mozart at Teatro Bonci in Cesena directed by Matelda Cappelletti and conducted by Claudio Desderi with whom he had studied at the School of Music in Fiesole. In October 2017 he returned to Teatro Bonci singing the title-role in Mozart's Don Giovanni (Desderi/Cappelletti).

He started studying piano at 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. He has taken part in masterclasses and courses held by Claudio Desderi, Lorenzo Regazzo, Rolando Panerai, Patrizia Ciofi and Gianfranco Montrésor.

In 2018 he won the competitions of Teatro Lirico Sperimentale "Adriano Belli" in Spoleto and "Toti Dal Monte" in Treviso, which resulted in further performances as Count of Almaviva in Treviso, Jesi and Ferrara (Alapont/Bellotto), until his debut in France singing this role at the Opéra de Marseille in 2019 (Shanahan/Boussard).

In concert he has sung Mozart's Krönungsmesse, Charpentier's Te Deum and Messe de Minuit, Bach's Magnificat and Matthäuspassion, Rutter's Mass of the children and given recitals of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, Schubert's Winterreise and Schumann's Dichterliebe with several pianists such as Eugenio Milazzo, Filippo Gorini, Alessandro Pierfederici and Riccardo Risaliti.

Recent performances include Belcore in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore for the Piccolo Festival of Friuli Venezia Giulia, the contemporary opera Tancredi appresso al combattimento by Claudio Ambrosini at the Cantiere Internazionale di Montepulciano, Uberto in Pergolesi's La serva padrona in Arezzo, Morales in Bizet's Carmen for the Ravenna Festival (Ovodok/Micheletti), Steno in Donizetti's Marino Faliero at the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo (Frizza/Ricci), Angelotti in Puccini's Tosca at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago (Veronesi/Sandrelli) and Jake Wallace in Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West in Pavia, Como and Cremona (Galli/Cigni).

In 2021 he made his debut at Opera Hong Kong as Sharpless in Puccini's Madama Butterfly (Abel/Maestrini) with acclaimed success, role played also in Avignon in November (Jean/Benoin).

Plans include Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen in Kiel, Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, Mozart’s Don Giovanni (as title-role) and Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte in Ravenna, Rimini and Salerno. He is currently recording his first CD of Schubert’s Winterreise with the pianist Elia Macrì.