Born in Florence, Filippo Mineccia gained international recognition being considered by many as one of the greatest specialists in the repertoire of the glorious castrato era.
As a child, he studied singing at the Fiesole School of Music, joining its Polyphonic Choir. After graduating in voice and cello from the Luigi Cherubini Music Conservatory in Florence, he studied with Gianni Fabbrini and Donatella Debolini.
Filippo made his Teatro alla Scala debut as Titta Castagna in Leonardo Vinci’s Li zite ‘ngalera in a new production conducted by Andrea Marcon and directed by Leo Muscato. He also gained wide acclaim for the concerts he performed under the baton of Riccardo Muti in Ravenna, Jerash and Pompeii.
He has performed numerous Handel roles, including Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare at the Opéra Royal de Versailles and the Beaune Festival and, more recently, at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari (Stefano Montanari/Damiano Michieletto) and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Gianluca Capuano/Davide Livermore). He also appeared as Ottone in Agrippina at both La Seine Musicale in Paris and the Theater an der Wien (Thomas Hengelbrock/Robert Carsen). At the Handel Festival in Halle, he performed Demetrio (Berenice), Dardano (Amadigi), and the title role in Lucio Cornelio Silla.
A long-standing collaboration with Ottavio Dantone has brought Filippo Mineccia to the Innsbruck Festival as Achilla in Giacomelli’s Cesare in Egitto and Teucro in Caldara’s Ifigenia in Aulide, as well as to the Theater an der Wien in the title role of Vivaldi’s Il Tamerlano (released on CD by Naïve). They also teamed up for Chiara Muti’s production of Handel’s Giulio Cesare which premiered at the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna before touring Modena, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia and Lucca.
He was seen on stage as Caino in A. Scarlatti’s oratorio Il primo omicido alongside Philippe Jaroussky at the Salzburg Mozarteum and Montpellier Opera, as Ottone in Monteverdi’s Incornazione di Poppea conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi at both the Liceu Barcelona and Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, and as Ruggiero in Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso at the Paris Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.
Filippo performed the title role in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Osmida in Galuppi’s Didone abbandonata under Ulises Illán at both the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid and the Potsdam Festival, and was the Swan in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana for the Rome Opera and, under the baton of Michele Spotti, for the 101st Arena di Verona Opera Festival.
He has also appeared in rare and lesser-known operas, starring as Achille in Francesco Sacrati’s Finta pazza with Leonardo García Alarcón in Geneva, Versailles, Amsterdam, and as Anassandro in the first modern performance of Riccardo Broschi’s Merope conducted by Alessandro De Marchi in Innsbruck and Vienna.
Filippo Mineccia has issued a dozen of solo albums dedicated to unknown composers such as Attilio Ariosti, Leonardo Vinci, Niccolò Jommelli, Francesco Gasparini, Giovanni Rubinelli and Johann Adolph Hasse. Mezzo has filmed the Stabat Mater by Pergolesi and Vivaldi he presented at the Chapelle Royale de Versailles.
Recent and future engagements include title role in Orlando in a production by Pier Luigi Pizzi conducted by Ottavio Dantone at the Ravenna Festival and his debut with René Jacobs and the Freiburger Barockorchester in Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno in Innsbruck, where he appears also in the first modern performance of Il Pomo d’oro by Pietro Antonio Cesti helmed by Ottavio Danone and Fabio Ceresa, to mark the festival’s 50th anniversary. Filippo will also return to the Handel Festival in Halle with his programme “La Notte” presented with Capella Cracoviensis.
