Federica Lombardi

Following her Salzburg performances as Donna Elvira, the Italian soprano Federica Lombardi’s appearances will include Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) in Chicago and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where she will also sing Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Mimì (La bohème) and Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), the title roles of Norma and Luisa Miller at the Vienna State Opera, Elisabetta (Don Carlo) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Amelia (Simon Boccanegra) and Norma in Amsterdam.

Recent highlights have included Elettra (Idomeneo) in Geneva, New York and Milan, a ballet production of Verdi’s Requiem in Zurich and Amsterdam, the title role of Anna Bolena at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Donna Elvira, Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito), Amelia, Countess Almaviva and Fiordiligi in Vienna, Donna Elvira at the 2021 Salzburg Festival and in Madrid, Donna Anna and Mimì in New York, Countess Almaviva under Antonio Pappano in London, Amelia in Liège, Mimì in Valencia, Donna Anna in Stuttgart and Countess Almaviva and Fiordiligi under Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera.

Other career milestones have included her house debuts at the Met as Donna Elvira and at the Bavarian State Opera, in Turin and in Rome as Fiordiligi. She has sung Donna Anna in Cologne and Bologna, made a guest appearance with Naples’s Teatro San Carlo in Bangkok under Zubin Mehta as Micaëla (Carmen), and received acclaim from the international press for her appearances as Countess Almaviva both in Graham Vick’s new production in Rome and in Christof Loy’s new production in Munich. In spring 2017 she made a much-praised debut as Anna Bolena at La Scala, Milan, returning soon after as Musetta (La bohème).

In 2020 she appeared on a recording of Verdi’s Otello under Pappano, singing Desdemona alongside Jonas Kaufmann’s Otello. She sang her first Mimì in 2022 for a filmed adaptation of La bohème in Rome.

A sought-after concert singer, Federica Lombardi has sung in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony under Mehta in Naples, Bangkok and Astana and in Mozart’s Requiem, also under Mehta, in Tortona Cathedral; in 2020 she was a soloist in a Rossini programme with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. Most recently she has sung in Verdi’s Requiem in Parma, in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and in concerts to celebrate New Year 2022/23 in Venice, and in an open-air concert with the Filarmonica della Scala at Castello Sforzesco in Milan. In July 2020 she appeared in one of the first concerts following the Corona lockdown, performing arias and duets with tenor Francesco Meli at La Scala.

Federica Lombardi was a participant in the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project in 2015. In 2019 she was awarded the Premio Franco Abbiati for her outstanding Mozart interpretations at major Italian opera houses.