Federica Lombardi

Source: Ammann Horak GmbH

Her plans include Le Nozze di Figaro in Chicago and New York, Norma and Luisa Miller in Vienna, Don Carlo at the German Opera Berlin, Don Giovanni (Donna Anna), La Bohème and Così fan tutte in New York, Simon Boccanegra and Norma in Amsterdam, …

Important productions in the recent past include Idomeneo in Geneva, New York and Milan, a ballet production of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in Zurich and Amsterdam, Anna Bolena at the German Opera Berlin, Don Giovanni, La Clemenza di Tito, Simon Boccanegra, Le Nozze di Figaro and Così fan tutte in Vienna, Don Giovanni at the Salzburg Festival, Don Giovanni and La Bohème in New York, Le Nozze di Figaro under Antonio Pappano in London, Simon Boccanegra in Liège, La Bohème in Valencia, Don Giovanni in Madrid and Stuttgart, Le Nozze di Figaro and Così fan tutte under Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera.

Other important roles include her house debuts at the Met as Donna Elvira and at the Bavarian State Opera, the Teatro Regio in Turin and the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome as Fiordiligi. She sang Donna Anna in Cologne and Bologna, made a guest appearance with the Teatro San Carlo in Naples as Micaëla (Carmen) under Zubin Mehta in Bangkok and wowed the international press with her portrayal of Countess Almaviva in both Graham Vick’s new production in Rome and Christof Loy’s new production in Munich. In early 2017, she made her acclaimed debut at La Scala as Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, where she returned shortly afterwards as Musetta.

A recording of Otello under Pappano was released in 2020, in which Federica Lombardi can be heard as Desdemona alongside Jonas Kaufmann in the title role. She sang her first Mimi in 2022 for a film version of Puccini’s La Bohème in Rome.

As a much sought-after concert singer, Federica Lombardi has performed under Mehta in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Naples, Bangkok and Astana as well as in Mozart’s Requiem and in a Rossini program with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. Most recently, she sang Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in Parma, Beethoven IX and concerts at the turn of the year in Venice and performed with La Scala in an open-air concert at the Casetllo Sforzesco in Milan. In July 2020, she sang arias and duets with tenor Francesco Meli at one of the first concerts at La Scala Milan after the corona lockdown.

Federica Lombardi was a participant in the Young Singers Project at the 2015 Salzburg Festival. In 2019, she was awarded the Premio Franco Abbiati by the Association of Italian Music Critics for her outstanding Mozart interpretations on important Italian opera stages.