Christina Bock © Sandra Ludewig

Christina Bock

Christina Bock made her debut at the Vienna State Opera in the 2020/21 season as Ottavia (L'incoronazione di Poppea) and has been a member of the opera ensemble there since the beginning of the 2021/22 season. In Vienna, she has so far appeared in roles such as Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Margret (Wozzeck) and Messaggiera/Proserpina (L'Orfeo). In the upcoming season, she will be seen at the Vienna State Opera in the revival of L'Orfeo, as Magdalene in the new production Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and as Orlofsky. She will also make her role debut in Vienna as a composer (Ariadne auf Naxos) and will make her debut at the Bavarian State Opera in Dmitri Tcherniakov's new production of War and Peace conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. She will also appear at the Munich Opera Festival as Page (Salome) and as Xenia's Amme (Boris Godunov), make her debut as Brangäne in a concert version of Tristan und Isolde with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, and with the Dresden Philharmonic as Grimgerde in Die Walküre, conducted by Marek Janowski.
After a permanent engagement at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, she was an ensemble member of the Semperoper Dresden from the 2014/15 to 2019/20 seasons, singing roles such as Nicklausse/Muse (Les contes d'Hoffmann), Jordan Baker in the European premiere of John Harbison's The Great Gatsby, Preziosilla (La forza del destino), Lisa in The Passenger, Hansel in Hansel und Gretel, Second Lady in The Magic Flute, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and Prince Orlofsky.
Numerous guest appearances have taken her to the Theater Freiburg in the title role of Die Csárdásfürstin, as Waltraute (Die Walküre) under the baton of Christian Thielemann at the 2017 Salzburg Easter Festival, to the 2018 Bregenz Festival as Bernardo in the German-language premiere of Beatrice Cenci, to the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden London as Page (Salome), and returned to London in the fall of 2018 as Wellgunde in Götterdämmerung and Rheingold. She was a guest artist at the Opéra national de Paris as Waltraute in the fall of 2020.
Born in Thuringia, mezzo-soprano Christina Bock's studies took her to the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig University of Music and Drama and the Karlsruhe University of Music. Since 2013, she has been mentored by Prof. Charlotte Lehmann in Hanover.
She is a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association Leipzig and a prize winner of the Arnold Schönberg Center Vienna.