Christina Jønsi

Mezzo soprano Christina Jønsi is from Skien in Norway. She started her song studies at the Grieg Academy here in Bergen in 2014, and completed her master in opera at Oslo National Acamdey of the Arts (Kunsthøgskolen) in 2021 with professor Solveig Kringlebotn.

Season 2021/22 Christina Jønsi was a member of the Norwegian National Opera Young Artists’ Programme. Some of her roles were. 2. Magd in Elektra, Juno in Orpheus in the Underworld, Mercédès in Carmen, Pastorkyňa in Jenůfa – and Ursula in the youth opera Ingenting (Nothing).

in February 2024 she made her house debut at the Opera in Kristiansund, in the role as Magdelone, in Den Stundesløse (The Fidget) by Edvard Fliflet Bræin. She has also sung 2. Dame in a shortened version of The Magic Flute at the Kirsten Flagstad festival, and participated in Puccini's La bohème at Opera Østfold. She has also toured with Stefan Ibsen Zlatanos and Alexander Rybak.

Christina Jønsi was chosen as a soloist at our Summer Academy Opera by the Fjord in 2022 as well as in 2024. In 2022 she sung the role as Zeta in the one acter Gianni Schicchi by Puccini, and in 2024 she was Flosshilde, one of the three Rhine daughters, in the highlights from Das Rheingold by Wagner.

In January and February this year (2025) she has her role debut as Hänsel, in the opera Hänsel und Gretel (Hans og Grete) by Humperdinck, at The Norwegian Opera & Ballet, when the version by the stage director Alexander Mørk-Eidem is revived there.

Main source: The Norwegian Opera & Ballet

Published January 2025