Christine Knorren

On tour with State Opera Rousse, Christine Knorren sang in Un ballo in maschera at Solothurn on 30 June 2013, in a cast with Gabriella Morigi, Mario Malagnini and Ventseslav Anastasov. She studied in Hamburg with Judith Beckmann and in Italy with Francesco Ellero d'Artegna, and took prizes at the Hamburg Mozart competition and the international Jaume Aragall competition. Before finishing her studies she was taken into the opera studio of the Zurich house, where she made her debut in Rigoletto and Der Wildschütz, and guest engagements followed in Sabadell, Cesena and Rovigo. Recordings include Pizzetti's Fedra and René Koering's Penthesilea, and in concert she has sung Debussy's Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien in Paris and Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht in New York. In 1999 she gave the first performance of the voice and piano version of Jorn Arnecke's Strophen zum Wir at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, with the pianist Martin Schumann. Her part in Fedra was Etra, sung in the French premiere of the opera at the Opera Berlioz in Montpellier in 2008 with the Orchestre National de Montpellier under Enrique Mazzola.