Christine Solhosse

After obtaining her Premiers Prix in singing in the classes of Jules Bastin and Pierre Fleta, the Belgian mezzo soprano Christine Solhosse furthered her training with Jane Berbié, Noëlle Barker and Rita Gorr. An accomplished musician, she also studied the harp and regularly conducts choirs and orchestras. She made her debut at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, where she performed in Fortunio, L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Louise, Les Diables de Loudun, L’Italienne à Alger with Ewa Podlès, Cenerentola, Adriana Lecouvreur, Der Rosenkavalier, La Traviata conducted by Anton Guadagno and staged by J. Karpo, Adriana Lecouvreur conducted by Marcello Viotti, Der Rosenkavalier, Dantons Tod, Die Fledermaus, Manon, among others.

Her career then led her to international stages, where she sang Così fan tutte by Mozart, Les Contes d’Hoffmann by Offenbach, Madama Butterfly by Puccini, Carmen by Bizet, Dialogues des Carmélites by Poulenc, L’Heure Espagnole by Ravel, Andrea Chenier by Giordano, Rigoletto by Verdi, and L’Homme de la Mancha with José Van Dam. She has worked with stage directors such as Martha Domingo, Nicolas Joël, Philippe Sireuil and Friedrich Meyer Oertel, alongside artists including Fiorenza Cossotto, Editha Gruberova, Annick Massis, Florian Laconi and Alain Fondary, and under the baton of conductors Paul Ethuin, Alain Guingal, Laurent Campellone, Friedrich Pleyer and Alberto Zedda. At the same time, she has successfully embodied major operetta roles for dramatic voices such as La Belle Hélène, La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein, La Périchole, Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, and Mademoiselle Lange in La Fille de Madame Angot.

Throughout Europe, she has also performed a wide oratorio repertoire including Johannes Passion by Bach, Matthäus Passion, the Requiem by Mozart and that of Von Suppe, Theresienmesse by Haydn, Gloria by Vivaldi, Oratorio de Noël by Saint Saëns, Oratorio de Liverpool by Mc Cartney, and Les Sept dernières paroles du Christ en Croix by Mendelssohn. For several years, she took part in a production of Der Ring des Nibelungen by Wagner alongside James Morris and Jean Philippe Lafont. More recently, she has sung in Le Comte Ory, Dialogues des Carmélites, Faust, Arabella, Mefistofele, Falstaff and Thaïs. This year, she adds the opera Peter Grimes by B. Britten to her repertoire.