ChristineRice

Christine Rice is one of the leading British mezzo sopranos of her generation, and was appointed MBE in the 2023 New Year's Honours for services to opera.

Highlights in her 2024/25 season include Muse Les contes d'Hoffmann for the Royal Opera and Phaedra in Deborah Warner's staging of Britten's cantata in its Linbury Theatre, La Zia Principessa Suor Angelica for the English National Opera and Ježibaba Rusalka for the Bayerische Staatsoper.

Christine Rice's operatic appearances have also taken her to The Metropolitan Opera, New York; the Opéra national de Paris; the Deutsche Oper, Berlin; Madrid's Teatro Real; the Opernhaus Zürich and the Glyndebourne and Salzburg Festivals.

Her wide ranging repertoire includes the roles of Brangäne Tristan und Isolde, Fricka and Erda Das Rheingold, Judith Duke Bluebeard's Castle, the title role in Carmen, Concepcion L'heure espagnole, Marguerite La damnation de Faust, Hänsel Hänsel und Gretel, the title roles in Gloriana and The Rape of Lucretia, Dorabella Così fan tutte and Donna Elvira Don Giovanni, Penelope Il Ritorno d'Ulisse and Irene Theodora, Ruggiero Alcina and the title role in Ariodante.

She created the roles of Miranda and Blanca in the world premieres of Thomas Adès' The Tempest and The Exterminating Angel, and Ariadne in Birtwistle's The Minotaur.

Christine also has a very busy concert career, appearing throughout the UK, Europe, North America and at the BBC Proms and Edinburgh International and Aldeburgh festivals working with conductors that include Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir Mark Elder, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Andrew Davis, Edward Gardner, Fabio Luisi, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.