Christine Tocci originally trained as an actress and worked with Ariane Mnouchkine, Matthias Langhoff and Peter Sellars while pursuing her singing studies at the Paris Conservatoire. Following success in a number of competitions, she completed her opera training in the Opera Studio at the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie. She made her professional début as Mercèdes Carmen.

Christine Tocci’s opera engagements have included Zweite Dame Die Zauberflöte for the Opéras de Montpellier, Sméraldine The Love for Three Oranges for Vlaamse Opéra and the Berlin Komische Oper, Nicklauss Les Contes d’Hoffmann for the Opéra de Rennes, Alisa Lucia di Lammermoor and the roles of The Duenna and Sister Martha Cyrano de Bergerac with Roberto Alagna for the Opéra de Montpellier, The Duenna and Sister Martha at the Opéra de Monte Carlo (also with Alagna), Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro for the Opéra de Dijon, Oreste La Belle Hélène at the Montpellier Festival, Lustigen Nibelungen by Oscar Strauss for Opéra de Caen, Siebel Faust for Opéra de Limoges, Pauline La Vie Parisienne for Opéra de Dijon, Martine Le medecin malgré lui by Gounod for the Opéra houses of Tours and Reims, Annina La traviata, and Second Vendeuse in Kurt Weill’s Der Silbersee at the Opéra de Massy, several roles for the Festival de Saint-Céré including Javotte Manon, Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro and Polly Die Dreigroschenoper by Kurt Weill.

Christine Tocci’s recent engagements have included Zweite Dame Die Zauberflöte for the Opéras de Montpellier and at the Théatre du Châtelet (house début), and her débuts at the Opéra National de Bordeaux as Der Hirt Tannhäuser and at the Opéra de Nice as Suzy La Rondine.

Forthcoming engagements include her débuts at the Opéra de Marseille as Oreste La Belle Helene and at the Opéra de Toulon as Myrtale Thaïs, and her return to Opéra National de Bordeaux to sing Oreste La Belle Helene.