Christine Tocci

Christine Tocci’s opera engagements have included Zweite Dame Die Zauberflöte for the Théâtre du Châtelet and Opéra de Montpellier,  Sméraldine The Love for Three Oranges for Vlaamse Opéra and the Berlin Komische Oper and Nicklausse Les Contes d’Hoffmann for Opéra de Rennes. She has also performed the roles of Alisa Lucia di Lammermoor and the Duenna and Sister Martha Cyrano de Bergerac for the Opéra de Montpellier and the Opéra de Monte Carlo.

Christine Tocci began her career 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 vocal 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 has performed extensively in France, including several roles for the Festival de Saint-Céré and for the opera houses of Dijon, Caen, Limoges, Tours, Reims and Massy.  Her repertoire includes Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro, Siebel Faust, Concepcion L’heure Espagnol, L’Enfant, La Tasse chinoise, La Chatte, L’Ecureuil and Un Pâtre L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Javotte Manon, Polly Die Dreigroschenoper,  Pauline La Vie Parisienne, Martine Le medecin malgré lui by Gounod, Annina La traviata, and Second Vendeuse in Kurt Weill’s Der Silbersee,

In recent seasons Christine Tocci made her débuts at the Opéra de Marseille as Oreste La Belle Helene, at the Opéra de Toulon as Myrtale Thaïs, at the Opéra National de Bordeaux as Der Hirt Tannhäuser and at the Opéra de Nice as Suzy La Rondine.  Earlier this year she returned to the Opéra National de Bordeaux to sing Oreste La Belle Helen.

Forthcoming engagements include her début as Marcellina Le nozze di Figaro for the Nationale Reisopera and her return to the Opéra de Marseille to sing Zweite Magd in Elektra and Annio in La Clemenza di Tito. In the coming season she sings Concepcion L’heure Espagnole with the Gulbenkian Orchestra under Lawrence Foster.

November 2011