The american soprano Christina Clark received her education at the University of Michigan where she was a Graduate Fellow. She has participated in nationally acclaimed Tanglewood, Banff and Ravinia Song Festivals and is a recepient of many grants and awards, including that of the Metropolitan Opera Company.Miss Clark performed with Florida Grand Opera as well as the opera companies of Toledo and Cleveland. For her role-portrait of Treemonisha in Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha for the Opera Theatre St. Louis in spring of 2000 she received praise from the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and other acclaimed music critics around the country.
In the 1996/97 season Christina made her German debut in Dusseldorf appearing as Clara in Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” in a celebrated production of the New-York-Harlem-Opera and as Polly Peachum in Weill’s “Three Penny Opera” for the Kurt-Weill-Festival in Dessau.
Since 2001 she is a soloist of the Aalto-Musiktheater in Essen. She performs such roles Gretel in Hänsel and Gretel, Tullia in Ottone in villa by Antonio Vivaldi, Despina in Cosi fan tutte, Marzelline in Fidelio, Ännchen in Der Freischütz, Frasquita in Carmen, Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos, Lois lane/Bianca in Kiss me Kate, Nanetta in Falstaff, Dorinda in Orlando by Händel and Tytania in A Midummer Night’s Dream.
Highlights of 2006/07 were her highly successful debuts at the Zurich Operhaus (Dorinda in Händel’s Orlando under the baton of William Christie) and at the Komische Oper Berlin (Hermione in Handel’s Orest - musical director Thomas Hengelbrock).
In the current season of the Aalto-Theater, she can be heard as Semele in Semele by G.F. Händel, Iduna in Das Feuerwerk by Paul Burkhard and Musetta in La Bohème.
Along with numerous Operatic roles, Christina continues to perform concerts and recitals in the United States and Germany. Guest performances led her to the opera houses Dusseldorf/Duisburg, Bonn, Wiesbaden, Giessen, Kassel and prestigeous festivals such as Richard-Strauss-Tage, Mosel-Musik-Festival and Schloss Elmau.
She performs internationally and is received with great enthusiasm from critics and audiences alike in the United States, Canada, all thourghout Europe, Russia and Israel.
