Christina Daletska

Christina Daletska ( Ukrainian Христина Далецька Chrystyna Dalezka , born December 6, 1984 in Lviv , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian opera and concert singer ( mezzo-soprano ).

Life

Daletska grew up in Lemberg (Lviv) and began studying the violin at the age of four with her mother Oksana Trunko ( violinist , teacher and leader of the Lemberg string ensemble ). Even before her 18th birthday, she played the violin concertos by Mendelssohn , Beethoven and Tchaikovsky with the Lemberg Municipal Orchestra and gained international experience as a violinist and violist in various orchestras.

Daletska has lived in Switzerland since 2003 and has been taking singing lessons from Ruth Rohner in Zurich since 2006 . She attended master classes by Michael Schade , Mariana Lipovsek , Thomas Quasthoff and Christa Ludwig .

Her concert activity started in 2005 in France and Poland. In 2006 she toured Germany and France with the Lemberg Chamber Orchestra with works by Bach, Myroslav Skoryk and Zoltan Almashi (in a world premiere of the work written for her, The Green Thoughts , which poses questions about environmental pollution through music ).

At the age of 23 she made her stage debut as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro Real Madrid .

In 2009 Daletska made her debut at the Salzburg Festival , was heard in Beethoven's Missa solemnis with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and Zurich Mixed Choir and in Dvořák's Requiem with the Bern Oratorio Choir. Further engagements led her as Zerlina ( Don Giovanni ), Mascha in Shostakovich's Moscow Tscherjomuschki and as Flora ( La Traviata ) at the Opéra de Lyon . In 2010 she sang Cherubino in a new production of Le nozze di Figaro at the Graz Opera and made her debut at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden as Mercédès in Carmen . In September 2010 she was invited to appear as Emilia in Otello under Daniel Harding in Paris , Luxembourg , Dortmund and Baden-Baden . In 2011 she made her role debut as Idamante ( Idomeneo ) under Thomas Hengelbrock in London, Hamburg, Munich, at the Würzburg Mozart Festival and again at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. In 2012 she sang Annio / “La Clemenza di Tito” with the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Louis Langree in Paris, London, Bremen and Dortmund and was heard again at the Salzburg Festival .

Further concert and recital engagements took her to Vienna , Barcelona , Strasbourg and Freiburg im Breisgau as well as to the Music by the Sea Festival in Canada . She has also performed with the Orchestra of the Musikkollegium Winterthur under Jac van Steen and the Orchester Philharmonique de Liège under Patrick Devin.

Christina Daletska sings a broad repertoire that ranges from Mozart to Rachmaninov and Prokofiev to Rodion Shchedrin and Philippe Manoury . She also speaks seven languages ​​and is an ambassador for Amnesty International Switzerland .

Web links

• Christina Daletska homepage
• Christina Daletska at Operabase (engagements and dates)
• Aargauer Zeitung of March 11, 2011: “Logic puzzles need a clear head” (PDF file; 604 kB) with the approval of the AZ editorial team