Franco Federici was born in Parma and graduated with first class honours at Parma Academy of music. Thanks to his oustanding career he has received teacher’s diploma which allows him to teach in every academy of music and conservatory in Italy. He has won first prize in many national as well as international opera contests such as in Parma, Milan, Reggio Emilia, Florence, Venice, Trieste, Spoleto, Munich, Sofia and Geneva.

He has been awarded with the Verdi d’Oro Award (Parma), Ponchielli Award (Cremona) and Poggi Award (Piacenza) for his refined interpretative skills and his longstanding career which has reached the 45th year of activity. In Italy, Franco Federici has performed in several opera houses such as Milan (La Scala), Bologna (Teatro Comunale), Torino (Teatro Regio), Rome (Teatro dell’Opera), Naples (Teatro San Carlo), Venice (Teatro la Fenice), Florence (Teatro Comunale), Catania (Teatro Bellini), Parma (Teatro Regio), Verona (Arena) and other minor theatres. In Europe he has sung in Austria, Bulgaria, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Portugal, U.K., Greece, Russia, Ex- Yugoslavia, Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland and Hungary. Outside Europe, he has performed in Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Canada, Colombia, Japan, Peru, U.S.A. and Venezuela.

Franco Federici has recorded several opera CDs and videos such as Aida, Otello, Il Trovatore, Nabucco, Turandot, Gianni Schicchi, Tosca, Manon Lescaut, Bohème, Giulio Cesare, Poliuto, Andrea Chenier, La Gioconda, La Fanciulla del West, I Puritani, Don Pasquale, Barbiere di Siviglia, Le Nozze di Figaro, L'elisir d'amore, La Traviata, La Forza del Destino and La Cenerentola. Franco Federici has performed with the best singers in the world. He made his debut in La forza del destino together with Renata Tebaldi, Mario Del Monaco and Ettore Bastianini (director Antonino Votto). He has also sung with Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, José Carreras, Raina Kabaivanska and many others.

He has been directed by the major musical directors in the world such as Muti, Abbado, Gavazzeni, Molinari Pradelli, Votto, Chailly, Zubin Metha, Levine, Santi and Sonzogno. Among movie/opera directors he has worked together with Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Eduardo De Filippo and Franco Zeffirelli.