Christina Daletska

Christina Daletska (Ukrainian: Hrystyna Dalec'ka / Xристина Далецька ), born December 1984 in Lviv (Ukraine) is a Ukrainian opera- and concert singer (mezzo-soprano).

Beginning musical studies at the age of four with her mother Oksana Trunko, violinist, teacher and the chief of the Lviv String Ensemble, she regulary appeared as a soloist with Lviv Symphony Orchestra, playing amongst others, the violin concertos of Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky before reaching the age of 18.

Ms. Daletska found her vocal teacher in Ruth Rohner in Zürich and a year later she entered and won prizes at her first three international competitions (Concours International de Chant Verviers, Festspielstadt Passau and Feruccio Tagliavini).

She has appeared as a soloist with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg with Ivor Bolton, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liege with Patrick Devin and Musikkollegium Winterthur under Jac van Steen and has been heard in recital in Vienna, Barcelona, Strasbourg, Freiburg im Breisgau and in her Canadian debut at the Music by the Sea Festival.

In 2008 Ms Daletska made an auspicious debut as Rosina in a production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the renowned Teatro Real in Madrid.

In 2009 she appeared as a soloist in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich and in Dvorak’s Requiem with Bern Symphony Orchestra. Future engagements include Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and Masha in Schostakovich’s Moscow Cherjomushki at the Opera de Lyon.

In the spring of 2010 Ms Daletska will be featured as Cherubino in a new production of Le Nozze di Figaro at the Opera Graz and in 2011 will make her role debut as Idamante (Idomeneo) with Maestro Thomas Hengelbrock in London, Hamburg, Munich, at the Würzburg Mozart Festival and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.

In 2009 Ms. Daletska appeared as a soloist at the Salzburg Festival in a choral concert singing works of Berio and Britten.