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The Italian bass, Federico Benetti, after his initial piano studies, graduated in singing with honors at the D. Cimarosa Conservatory of Avellino under the guidance of Carlo Desideri, and perfected himself at the Accademia di S. Cecilia in Rome with Renata Scotto, Anna Vandi and Cesare Scarton.
Federico Benetti immediately began an intense concert and opera activity, which led him to sing in the main Italian and European theaters, including the Opera house in Rome, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Verdi Theater in Trieste, the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago. 2013 he debuted the role of Henry VIII in Anna Bolena directed by Fabio Biondi at the Rieti Reate Festival, he was Sarastro in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, then Don Basilio in the Barber of Seville in Clermont-Ferrand, Vichy and on tour in France , Commendatore in Don Giovanni in Treviso and Ferrara, Angelotti in Tosca at the Opera de Toulon, a theater that saw him engaged in following years also in Ballo in Maschera (Samuel), Traviata and Rigoletto. In Tirana it was Don Alfonso in W.A. Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, then debuted at the Teatro Regio in Turin in George Frideric Handel's Salome, and later in Rigoletto. He sang in Benjamin Britten's Midsummer's night dream (Theseus), and in Georges Bizet's Carmen. Pistola in Falstaff as part of the Verdi Festival of Parma 2017.
He continued to attend the sacred and symphonic repertoire with L.v. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (with the Bellini Theater of Catania at the Roman Amphitheater in Syracuse), W.A. Mozart's Requiem and the Coronation Mass, Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle in the symphonic version (in 2018 in Ravenna conducted by Paolo Olmi, and in Bologna conducted by Matteo Parmeggiani), J.S. Bach's Mass in G minor BWV 235; recently Rossini's Stabat Mater in Nis (Serbia). During the same period he started prestigious collaborations in the Baroque repertoire , among others directed by Ottavio Dantone in Orfeo (Pluto) as part of the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona in 2017, and in the present season in G.F. Handel's Rinaldo (Christian Wizard), again in Cremona and in the theaters of the Lombard circuit. In March 2019 he was again engaged in Turin in the Päer Agnese, directed by Diego Fasolis. Recently he sang as bass soloist and the part of Pilatus in J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion BWV 245 in Rome and Perugia, directed by Fabio Maestri, a project that will also be resumed next year in Ancona.
Future commitments include Lucrezia Borgia as part of the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo, a production which will be resumed in Reggio Emilia, Piacenza and Ravenna; Carmen at the Politeama Greco theater in Lecce, and Adriana Lecouvreur at the Carlo Felice in Genoa in the role of the Prince of Bouillon. |
