Federico Tibone is an Italian conductor, pianist and vocal coach. Choosen by Lawrence Foster in 2022 he's currently associate conductor in Opéra de Marseille and Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille (music director Michele Spotti), and associate professor of the Conducting Department at the Conservatoire de Lille.
Federico is originally from Turin, where he studied piano with Vera Drenkova. After graduating the Conservatory, he collaborated with Teatro Regio di Torino as a vocal coach for many productions, like La Boheme, La Traviata, Norma and Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
In 2015 he moves to Paris, where he studies conducting with Nicolas Brochot and becomes artist in residence of the Académie de l’Opéra National de Paris (2015-2017), where he would take part in productions as La Traviata, Tosca, Die Lustige Witwe, Iphigenie en Tauride, Orfeo.
He conducted Mozart’s Così fan Tutte and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly in Orvieto (2017, 2020), Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera in Abay National Opera (Kazakhstan, 2018), Offenbach’s La Perichole in Paris (2021) and in 2024 for Opéra de Marseille Paganini by Franz Léhar and Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro
His collaborations with conductors and singers include artists such as Lawrence Foster, Bertrand de Billy, Dan Ettinger, Paolo Arrivabeni, Michele Spotti, Frédéric Chaslin, José van Dam, Sophie Koch, Thomas Hampson, Véronique Gens, Anja Harteros and Ramon Vargas.
Federico won 2nd prize at the 26th edition of “Premio Venezia” piano competition (Teatro la Fenice, Venice, 2009) and 2nd prize at the 8th International competition for opera conductors “L. Mancinelli” (Orvieto, Italy, 2018) and was a finalist of the 56th and 57th edition of the prestigious Besançon Competition for Young Conductors (2019, 2021).
The 24/25 season announces the debut in Opéra de Québec with Verdi’s masterpiece Il Trovatore,
a new production in Opéra de Marseille with Ballet National de Marseille (Age of Content,
choreographer La Horde), two symphonic concerts in Opéra de Marseille and pedagogical
performances with Orchestre Philarmonique de Marseille.
In March 2025 a song album recorded
with the young mezzo-soprano Anne-Lise Polchlopek and the guitarist Pierre Laniau will be
released by Outhere Music.
Particularly interested and involved in transmission, Federico is conductor of Demos Marseille, a
project by Philarmonie de Paris
