Christina Bock

German mezzo-soprano Christina Bock was born in Thuringia and studied at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music in Leipzig and at Karlsruhe’s University of Music. Since 2013 she has been taught by Charlotte Lehmann in Hanover. She holds a bursary from the Richard Wagner Society of Leipzig and won the special prize awarded by the Arnold Schoenberg Center at the Hilde Zadek International Singing Competition in Vienna.

In the wake of a permanent contract with the Baden State Theatre in Karlsruhe, Christina Bock has been a member of the Dresden State Opera since 2014/15. There her roles have included Nicklausse/Muse in a new production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Jordan Baker in the European premiere of John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby and Preziosilla in a new production of La forza del destino. In June and July 2017 she appeared as Lisa in Weinberg’s The Passenger. Among other leading lyric roles in Dresden are Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) and Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus).

In addition to her operatic appearances, the focus of Christina Bock’s artistic activities is vocal chamber music. Since 2013 she has worked with the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet and in 2017 she founded the ensemble épique. She also appears regularly at chamber recitals by the Dresden Staatskapelle and at the Klassik Krumbach Chamber Music Festival.

Numerous guest engagements have taken the young mezzo-soprano to the Freiburg Theatre, where she appeared to great acclaim in the title role of Die Csárdásfürstin, to the 2017 Salzburg Easter Festival, where she sang Waltraute (Die Walküre) under Christian Thielemann, and to the 2018 Bregenz Festival, where she took the role of Bernardo in the first German-language production of Berthold Goldschmidt’s Beatrice Cenci. In January 2018 she made her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as the Page (Salome) and will be returning to the company in the autumn of 2018 as Wellgunde in Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung. During the 2018/19 season she will be making her role debuts as Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel) and Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier) at the Dresden State Opera.

Current as of August 2018