About Federico

Federico Paciotti (Rome, 1987) is a tenor and guitarist.
Raised with a passion for rock and opera, he is an admirer of the great voices of "bel canto"
singing such as Franco Corelli, Luciano Pavarotti, Mario Del Monaco, and Jonas Kaufmann, and of legends of the
guitar such as Jimi Hendrix and Steve Vai.
Since childhood he has nurtured the dream of uniting two seemingly distant musical worlds into one project in which
which the sound of rock guitar marries perfectly with opera singing.​

His career officially started when at the age of 13 with the pop band Gazosa he won Sanremo 2001 in the
“Newcomers” category.
Following this experience, Federico sees fit to continue studying and decides to perfect himself
also in opera singing by enrolling at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, an institution of great prestige
and rigor, at which in 2018 he graduated as a tenor. Meanwhile, he plays one of the seven
male roles in the opera “La Divina Commedia,” a massive theatrical production whose music is
composed by Marco Frisina and which is staged for 80,000 spectators in 7 months between Rome, Milan and Reggio  Calabria.
In the following years Federico Paciotti has the opportunity to participate in some particularly prestigious events:
in 2013 he is one of the 5 soloists of “The Pearls of Santa Cecilia” trying his hand at “Tra Voi belle, brune, bionde”
a piece from Giacomo Puccini's Manon Lescaut.

Then he is one of eight tenors performing with the
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Tomomi Nishimoto in two concerts held in the Basilica
St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican and in St. Paul's Basilica.
In 2014, he was one of three tenors selected from all international music academies to perform at the
prestigious Liszt Academy in Budapest and later at the Luzhniki Auditorium in Moscow. During the same
period he collaborated with Maestro Rolando Nicolosi, an opera legend who has worked with the most
opera's greatest artists including Schipa, Callas, Domingo and Pavarotti.
It's time to try to fulfill childhood dreams by combining opera and rock in a unique and
particular mash-up.

When Caterina Caselli hears Federico's new project, she decides to pair him with the
Italian producer and composer Celso Valli and American musician and composer Simone Benyacar for
the making of his first album, Rosso Opera, on which they will work for two years. Among the songs rearranged
and recorded in the studio stands out an extraordinary duet with internationally renowned tenor Ramon Vargas on the
notes of “E Lucevan Le Stelle” (“Tosca,” G. Puccini).​

In 2015 Federico was a guest at the Sanremo Festival, where he performed two of the most famous operas by Giacomo
Puccini: “E Lucevan le Stelle” and an instrumental guitar version of “Nessun Dorma.”
Afterwards, he participated in the evening “Arena di Verona - Lo spettacolo sta per iniziare” presented by Paolo
Bonolis and broadcast on "Canale 5": he performs “Nessun dorma” guitar and voice in a new version enriched
by the Santa Cecilia Choir.
In summer 2015 he is on stage again, in Parma, Spoleto, Rimini and Milan, for the format “La dolce vita - The
music of Italian cinema,” with orchestra conducted by Steven Mercurio.
A few months later he performed in the concert organized by the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome for the
charitable foundation chaired by Kathleen Kennedy, who manifests on several occasions her
enthusiastic appreciation for Federico's music and interpretative style.

While he completes the recordings of her first solo album, in 2016 she participates in other
prestige: in June at “Con Il Cuore,” presented by Carlo Conti live on Rai1 from Assisi, she performs for the
first time “Mater Misericordiae.” The song, produced by Simone Benyacar, is a special
reinterpretation of the intermezzo from P. Mascagni's “Cavalleria Rusticana,” whose lyrics, inspired by the theme
of mercy and compassion, combines some passages from “Salve Regina” and “Ave Maria.”
In July 2016 Federico Paciotti is again expected on an important stage in Rome: that of “Music For
Mercy,” an international event organized by UNESCO at the Imperial Forum as part of the Jubilee.

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On Dec. 26, he is on the bill of “La Dolce Vita” at the Sala Santa Cecilia of the Auditorium Parco della Musica in
Rome, together with Carly Paoli, Peppe Servillo and Giovanni Caccamo. For the occasion he sings solo and in
duet with Carly Paoli, accompanied by the Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra conducted by Steven Mercurio.
On May 26, 2017, Rosso Opera was released digitally, with 8 songs of Italian bel canto selected from the repertoire
by Verdi, Puccini, Händel and others, and featuring the video of “Vesti La Giubba” from R. Leoncavallo's “Pagliacci.
The album goes to the top of the chart on Itunes and remains several days in the general Top 30. A few weeks later
he is again a guest on “Con Il Cuore” live on Rai 1 from Assisi, but in this case with Maestro Ramòn
Vargas, to sing together live the duet “E Lucevan le Stelle” contained in the album.
On June 24, Federico Paciotti is at Expo 2017 in Astana for “Red Opera,” a concert at the Central Concert
Hall Kazakhstan, accompanied by the Mito Orchestra conducted by M. Alfredo Santoloci, in front of an
enthusiastic audience of 3400 paying audience members. An extraordinary success.

In December 2017, a special Christmas Concert in the ancient Abbey of Noci in Apulia, Italy, featuring
by soprano Carly Paoli, who reciprocated on February 15, 2018, inviting Federico to London as the guest
special concert at Cadoghan Hall. On this occasion Federico performs 3 pieces from his own
repertoire, including one in duet with Carly, with the accompaniment of a Symphony Orchestra conducted by
Steven Mercurio.
Meanwhile, Federico Paciotti composed the official song of the 2018 Winter Paralympics in
Pyongchang in Korea, which is being presented live at the opening ceremony: “Here as One” is a song
pop performed by world-renowned Korean soprano Sumi Jo, together with Korean pop star Soyang, and
speaks prophetically about the dream of seeing the two Koreas united in the name of peace.
From April to July 2018 Paciotti is engaged in a radio program on Radio Rock, a historic radio station
Rome: during the 8 episodes of “Radio Rock Rosso Opera,” with the coconduction of Maestro Santoloci
and the participation of some prestigious guests such as Sumi Jo, Claudio Simonetti, Steven Mercurio, Ramon
Vargas, Caterina Caselli, Maurizio Solieri, Andrea Griminelli, Peppe Servillo and others, Paciotti presents live
in the studio his special musical formula, of meeting between musical genres that are apparently different but capable
of moving on common ground. The series ends with a special concert accompanied by Quartetto
d'Archi from the Radio Auditorium Hall.​

On May 18, 2018 Rosso Opera is also released in CD format. The album earned Paciotti the “Premio Penisola
Sorrentina Arturo Esposito 2018” won in the ‘Best First Work’ category and presented during the
annual Gala evening on October 27, 2018 at the Teatro delle Rose in Sorrento, where Federico performed live.
For New Year's Eve 2019, Federico Paciotti performed in concert in Genoa, in front of 30,000 people in
Piazza De Ferrari: his concert represents the most anticipated moment of an experimental project, ambitious
as well as excellently successful, created by contemporary artist and "Maestro Della Luce" Marco Nereo Rotelli.

On April 5, 2019, a large charity event is organized at the Gran Teatro Geox, in favor of
the Children's Hospital of Padua, Federico sings 4 opera arias and premieres the song written
and arranged by him together with M. Steven Mercurio “Eternal Love” and sung in duet with soprano Sumi Jo,
accompanied by world-renowned flutist Andrea Griminelli. Part of the financial proceeds from the song
will be donated to charity.
On April 21, 2019, Federico Paciotti embarks on a major tour together with soprano Sumi Jo (Grammy award winner for best soprano), touching in eight stops the most important cities in South Korea, singing all the world's most famous opera arias and Neapolitan romances (including “Nessun
Dorma,” ‘Cavalleria Rusticana,’ ‘O sole mio,’ ‘Torna a Surriento’). Each date of the tour is closed by the
duet “Eternal Love,” which is also included in Sumi Jo's latest album (Mother), certified “Disco di
Platinum” a few weeks after its release.

In October, Federico was invited (after an interview in the same month with “Corriere della sera”) by
Giancarlo Magalli on the RAI 2 program “I fatti vostri” where, after being interviewed by Magalli
sings Puccini's famous aria “Nessun Dorma” live. In November 2019 on the occasion of the most
important Italian music fair “MILANO MUSIC SHOW” Federico is chosen by “Virgin Radio” to
perform in the “Main Stage” of the radio station.
In June 2020 he composed, sang, arranged and mixed the single “Life is a Miracle,” which was then
mastered by Greg Calby at Sterling Sound in New York. The single, featuring soprano Sumi Jo and pianist
Giovanni Allevi, was released by Universal Music Asia and Sugar Music.

In 2022, he begins a tour of Italy, accompanied by the youth orchestra “Toscanini Next” founded by the
prestigious Toscanini foundation in Parma.

The date that closed the 2022 concert season
was Dec. 13 with a concert at the Regio Theater in Parma one of the most important theaters in the world for
opera.
In 2022 with the Toscanini Next orchestra he begins recording his new album deliberately recorded in
live, in addition to opera arias this time there will also be unreleased songs written by Morgan,
Francesco Sartori with lyrics by Lucio Quarantotto, Andrea Camilletti etc..
On March 17, 2024 on the occasion of the first stop in Argentina in Buenos Aires of the world tour of the
Amerigo Vespucci ship, he was called upon to represent Italian excellence in the world by doing a
concert for the ship's arrival ceremony in Argentina.