Christina Daletska
mezzo-soprano
Christina Daletska is one of the most impressive young singers of her generation and stands out thanks to her extraordinary enthusiasm and talent for works from the 20th and 21st centuries and wanders effortlessly between the classical and modern repertoire. Critics admire the phenomenal soprano Christina Daletska, who knows how to fill every word with strength, meaning and personality. (Tages Anzeiger). She has a vocal range of three octaves and regularly sings soprano parts.
In the season 2023/24, Christina Daletska will premiere the new piece Mnemosyne by Stefan Wirth with the Collegium Novum Zurich at the Tonhalle Zurich, perform together with the Arditti Quartet at the Musikfestival Bern, interpret György Ligeti’s Aventures & Nouvelles Aventures with the Camerata Variabile in Switzerland and sing concerts with the Remix Ensemble at the Casa da Música Porto and with the Orquesta de Valencia at the Palau de la Música Valencia.
At the age of 23, she appeared on the opera stage for the first time singing in the role of Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro Real Madrid. In 2018, she made her debut at the Teatro La Fenice di Venezia in the role of Queen Elisabeth in the Italian premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s Richard III. In summer 2019, she sang the world premiere of LAST CALL by Michael Pelzel at the Zurich Opera House. She performed concerts at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Philharmonie de Paris and Luxembourg, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Bozar Brussels, the Casa da Música Porto, the Barbican Centre London, the Salzburg Festival, the Wiener Festwochen, the Lucerne Festival, the Festival Música Strasbourg and at the Beethovenfest Bonn.
She was born in Lemberg (Ukraine) in 1984. She speaks seven languages and her committed activism on human rights issues has led to her being named an Ambassador by Amnesty International.
Opera / Music theatre:
Béla Bartók Bluebeard’s Castle (Judith*)
Ludwig van Beethoven Fidelio (Marzelline)
Vincenzo Bellini Norma (Adalgisa)
Alban Berg Lulu (Der Gymnasiast)
Georges Bizet Carmen (Mercedes)
Claude Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande (Mélisande*)
Gaetano Donizetti L’elisir d’amore (Giannetta)
Umberto Giordano Andrea Chenier (Bersi)
Engelbert Humperdinck Hänsel & Gretel (Hänsel)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Die tote Stadt (Brigitta/Lucienne)
Pietro Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana (Lola)
Philippe Manoury Kein Licht (Alto, UA)
Claudio Monteverdi L’incoronazione di Poppea (Poppea)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Così fan tutte (Dorabella, Despina), Don Giovanni (Zerlina), Idomeneo (Idamante), La Clemenza di Tito (Sesto, Annio), Le Nozze di Figaro (Cherubino, Marzellina), The Magic Flute (Second Lady)
Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofiev Krieg und Frieden (Elen Besuchova, Sonja)
Henry Purcell Dido and Aeneas (Dido)
Gioacchino Rossini La Cenerentola (Angelina), Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina), La Gazza Ladra (Ninetta), La Scala di Seta (Lucilla), Moise et Pharaon (Sinaide)
Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Shostakovich Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Sonjetka), Moskau, Cherjomyschki (Mascha)
Richard Strauss Capriccio (Clairon *), Elektra (2./3. Maid), Salome (Page)
Igor Stravinsky Le Rossignol (Cook)
Giuseppe Verdi Falstaff (Meg Page), La Forza del destino (Preziosilla), La Traviata (Flora), Nabucco (Fenena), Otello (Emilia)
Richard Wagner Das Rheingold (Wellgunde)
Concert (selection):
Zoltan Almashi Die Grünen Gedanken (UA)
Jean Barraqué Mélodies (UA)
Alban Berg Altenberg-Lieder, Sieben frühe Lieder
Luciano Berio Folk Songs
Hector Berlioz L’enfance du Christ, Les nuits d’été
Christoph Cajöri Alpsegen (UA)
Ernest Chausson Chanson Perpétuelle
Jean-Luc Darbellay Poemen (UA)
Manuel De Falla El amor brujo, Siete canciones populares españolas
Edison Denissow La vie en rouge
Maurice Duruflé Requiem
Gion Antoni Derungs Dunant (Bertha von Suttner) (UA)
Antonín Dvořák Biblische Lieder, Requiem (S/A), Stabat Mater (S/A), Te Deum, Zigeunerlieder (Orchestral version)
Elena Firsova Earthly life
Charles Gounod Messe solennelle en l’honneur de Sainte-Cécile
Alexander Tichonowitsch Gretschaninow Liturgia domestica, op. 79
Sofia Gubajdulina Die Phazelie
Arthur Honegger Le Roi David (S/A)
Gustav Mahler Symphony no. 2, no. 4, no. 8 (Sopran 3)
Philippe Manoury Gesänge-Gedanken (UA)
Bohuslav Martinu The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tarquinio Merula Canzonetta Spirituale
Olivier Messiaen Chants de Terre et de Ciel*
Darius Milhaud Les soirées de Pétrograde
Luigi Nono Djamila Boupacha, La Fabbrica Illuminata, Prometeo (S II)
Victoria Poleva Sonnenlieder (UA)
Francis Poulenc Gloria (S)
Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninov selected songs (orchestral version)
Maurice Ravel Shéhérazade
Fausto Romitelli An Index of Metals
Camille Saint-Saёns Oratorio de Noël
Kensaku Shimizu Requiem für Fukushima (UA)
Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Shostakovich Symphony no. 14
Arnold Schönberg Gurre-Lieder (Lied der Waldtaube), Pierrot Lunaire *
Igor Stravinsky Les Noces (S)
Michael Tippett A child of our time
* studied
6 September 2023, 19:00, Turbinensaal, Dampfzentrale Bern
Programme: Piece by Éliane Radigue and Carol Robinson, Gustav Mahler Das Lied von der Erde
Cast: Ensemble Graindelavoix, Christina Daletska (mezzo-soprano)
28 October 2023, 19:30, Tonhalle Zurich
Programme: Sebastian Meyer Canções (premiere), Harrison Birtwistle Secret Theatre, Stefan Wirth Mnemosyne (premiere), Martyna Kosecka Saqar (premiere)
Cast: Collegium Novum Zürich, Yalda Zamani (conductor), Christina Daletska (mezzo-soprano)
21 January 2024, Casa da Música, Porto
Programme: Vasco Mendonça (premiere)
Cast: Ensemble Remix, Peter Rundel (conductor), Christina Daletska (mezzo-soprano)
Details to projects will be published soon.
Christina Daletska has a dark, rich contralto; maybe it wasn’t the music but the startling sound that emerged when she sang ‘Oh, Mensch! Gib Acht!’ which prompted the thoughts of Mahler.
seenandheard-international.com, 22 September 2017, Perdian
Crowe and Daletska blended beautifully, Crowe’s upper register gleamed above the stave, Daletska the more expressive, especially in the Agnus Dei.
seenandheard-international.com, 11 November 2016
Christina Daletska’s warm mezzo was ideal for Anninus
classicalsource.com, 22 February 2012
The vocal talent didn’t stop at the leads. Christina Daletska’s trembly little Annius was terrifically pretty.
Theartsdesk.com, 25 February 2012
Christina Daletska [was] a lovely Amor.
flamboroughreview.com, 10 August 2012
Omnia tempus habent (Bernd Alois Zimmermann), Collegium Novum Zürich, 2019:
Christina Daletska
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Website:
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