About Christianne

Canadian mezzo-soprano Christianne Bélanger is acclaimed internationally for her warm and versatile voice as well as her strong stage presence. She made her professional debut at Opéra de Montréal in Menotti's The Consul. She was a member of the Académie at Opéra-Comique de Paris in 2013-14, where she performed in Lecocq’s Ali Baba as the hilarious Zobéide. In 2014, she premiered the iconic title role of Bizet’s Carmen with conductor Jacques Lacombe, for which the press wrote „(she) distinguished herself, foremost, by her vocal talent, but also for her physical and dramatic interpretation of the character.“
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More recently, she made her role debut as Olga (Onegin) at Staatstheater Augsburg. In summer 2023 at Festival Saint-Céré, she revived the role of Françoise/La renarde/La dinde in the opera Le coq Maurice (Pascal Zavaro), which she had created with conductor Julien Masmondet and the Ensemble Les Apaches in 2021. In 2022 she sang Suzuki (Madama Butterfly) at Landestheater Detmold and Mrs. Sedley (Peter Grimes) at Staatstheater Augsburg. In 2019, she performed the leading role of Gertrude Stein in Ricky Ian Gordon’s chamber opera Twenty-Seven as well as Larina (Onegin), both at Opéra de Montréal. From 2016 to 2018 she worked full-time at Theater Ulm, where she premiered over 15 roles; she returns regularly as a guest, notably as the fiery Madame de la Haltière in Massenet’s Cendrillon (2020) and for her debut as Smeaton in Anna Bolena in January 2024.
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Notable roles from the past years include Nicklausse (Les contes d’Hoffmann), Siebel (Faust), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Prinz Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Polina (Pique Dame), Ramiro (Motezuma), Kuchtik (Rusalka) and Gymnasiast (Lulu), among others. She has worked with many theaters and orchestras around the World, such as the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, the Montreal Symphonic Orchestra, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Opéra de Québec, Staatstheater Augsburg, and the Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Symphony Orchestra (China).
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Christianne equally excels in oratorio and art song. She has sung in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Orchestre Symphonique de Trois-Rivières, Mozart’s Mass in C minor with Andrew Megill and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Choir, Beethoven’s Symphony No.9, and Mozart’s Requiem with the Augsburger Philharmonik, to name a few.
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Christianne performs chamber music as much as possible. She premiered the song cycle Sept Facéties, op.86 by Canadian composer Richard Gibson commissioned for her and pianist Pierre-André Doucet. In 2017, she created An der Donau, a water-themed recital with pianist Carl Philippe Gionet, and they have subsequently performed it often in Germany and Canada. She has collaborated many times with the Ensemble Katcor, where they performed opera arias and art songs arranged for mezzo-soprano and horn quartet. In 2015, she toured China in a duet recital with soprano Suzanne Rigden and pianist Richard Coburn. Her recent art song recital “Serenaden und Romanzen” with pianist Galina Strohwald-Kan was frequently performed in Germany.
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Parallel to her active career as a classical singer, Christianne has been teaching voice to students of all levels since 2005. She is an invited voice teacher at masterclasses and workshops at undergraduate level. She was a vocal coach for the award-winning online choir “Choeur Virtuel de l’Acadie”. She has been working as voice technician with the Ulmer Konzertchor since 2024. She is comfortable teaching voice in French, English and German. She also has a passion for languages; she coaches French lyric diction to professional singers and she even occasionally teaches French and English.
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Christianne Bélanger completed a Masters in Music and an Artist Diploma at the Université de Montréal. She won First Place at the Concours International de Chant Lyrique de Canari (Corsica) and multiple awards from the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques (Montreal), including the Bavaria Award. She is the recipient of many stipends throughout the years, notably from the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec and Arts New-Brunswick.