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 made his debut in 2016 as Count of Almaviva in Mozart's 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 of 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, role played also in 2019 with his debut in France at the Opéra de Marseille. 

From 2019 to 2021 he joined reknown 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 sung 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 and Liederkreis, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with reknown 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 Macrì.

Plans include Sharpless in Puccini's Madama Butterfly at Shanghai Opera House, his debute in Glyndebourne as Germont in Verdi's La traviata and in Teatro Regio di Torino as Figaro in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro.

Repertorio

Opera

Autore Opera Ruolo
BelliniI PuritaniRiccardo
BizetCarmenEscamillo
DonizettiLucia di LammermoorEnrico
L'elisir d'amoreBelcore
Don PasqualeDottor Malatesta
LeoncavalloPagliacciSilvio
MascagniCavalleria rusticanaAlfio
MassenetWertherAlbert
MozartCosì fan tutteGuglielmoDon Alfonso
Don GiovanniDon Giovanni
Le Nozze di FigaroFigaroIl Conte d'Almaviva
PergolesiLa serva padronaUberto
PucciniToscaScarpia
Madama ButterflySharpless
La bohèmeMarcello
RossiniIl barbiere di SivigliaFigaro
La CenerentolaDandini
StravinskijThe Rake's ProgressNick Shadow
VerdiLa traviataGermont
RigolettoRigoletto
WainwrightHadrianTurbo

Musica da camera e sacra

Autore Titolo
BachMatthäuspassion
Magnificat
BeethovenSymphony No. 9
BrahmsEin deutsches Requiem
CharpentierMesse de minuit
Te Deum
FauréRequiem
La Bonne Chanson, Op. 61
MahlerKindertotenlieder
MozartKrönungsmesse, K317
RossiniPetite Messe Solennelle
RutterMass of the children
ScarlattiLa passione di San Giovanni
SchubertWinterreise, D.911
SchumannDichterliebe
Liederkreis op. 24