Federico Fiorio

The male soprano Federico Fiorio was born in Verona, and began his musical training in a children’s choir there. He went on to study with Lia Serafini at the Conservatorio di Music a Francesco Antonio Bonporti in Trento and with Patrizia Vaccari at the Conservatorio di Musica Arrigo Boito in Parma. He is also a graduate of the Accademia Giuseppe Gherardeschi for Early Music in Pistoia.

Engagements in the 2025/26 season will include his debut at the Theater an der Wien as Darío in a new production of Pablo Luna’s Benamor, Cleopatra in Hasse’s Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Timante in Leonardo Leo’s Demofoonte at the Fari-nelli Festival in Madrid.

At the age of just 16 he made his debut as Enea and Iarba in the Baroque pasticcio Io, Didone e le altre at the Teatro Ristori and as First Boy (Die Zauberflöte) at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, and released his first solo CD, entitled Come voce antica risuonano fili di luce, with the harpist Marina Bonetti. In 2018 he performed the role of Lidio in Albinoni’s Zenobia at the Teatro Malibran. He regularly collaborates with the conductor Ottavio Dantone, under whom he has sung Andronico in Vivaldi’s Tamerlano in Ravenna, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia and Modena, Lepido in Giacomelli’s Cesare in Egitto at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and Nerone in a concert performance of Handel’s Agrippina at the Seine Musicale on the Île Seguin near Paris.

Other recent highlights have included Nerone in Pier Luigi Pizzi’s production of L’incoronazione di Poppea in Cremona, Ravenna, Como, Pavia and Pisa, Amanzio in Vivaldi’s Il Giustino under George Petrou at the Drottningholm Palace Theatre, Bellezza in Handel’s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno under Diego Fasolis at the Opéra de Lausanne, the role of the Swan in Orff’s Carmina Burana under José Luis Basso at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and Pulgar in the world premiere of Alberto Carretero’s La bella Susona under Nacho de Paz at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville. Other conductors with whom he has collaborated include Giovanni Antonini, Jordi Savall, Jean-Christophe Spinosi and Carlo Ipata.

Engagements in the 2024/25 season have included Sesto (Giulio Cesare) under Dantone in a production by Chiara Muti staged in Ravenna, Modena, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia and Lucca, Aminta (Il re pastore) under Giulio Prandi at the Valletta Early Opera Festival and the programme Handel in Rome 1707 at the Handel Festival in Halle. He also appeared at La Monnaie in Brussels as Capriccio in the newly created Monteverdi pasticcio I Grotteschi in a production by Rafael R. Villalobos under Leonardo García Alarcón.

In 2024 Federico Fiorio founded the Karalis Antiqua Ensemble, of which he is artistic director.