Cristina Melis started studying music at the age of 11 and obtained a diploma in flute. She then graduated in singing at the Conservatory Arrigo Boito in Parma, after that she specialized at the Academy for Young Opera Singers held by the "A. Toscanini " foundation under the guidance of M ° Alain Billard. She won "Giacomo Lauri Volpi" and "Giuseppe Verdi" International Contests debuting as Azucena in Parma. Amongst her past engagements it is worth mentioning: Quickly in Falstaff at the Petruzzelli in Bari; Azucena in Trovatore at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna (P.Steinberg/ B.Wilson), Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Theater Kiel Rathauspaltz, Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo; Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana at the Regio in Turin (Battistoni/ Lavia), Luglio Musicale Trapanese, Theatre in Kiel; Carmen (Carmen) at the Lirico in Cagliari, Theater in Kiel, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Arena di Verona (Kovacev/ Zeffirelli); Amneris  in Aida at the Comunale di Bologna (Chaslin/Micheli) , Teatro Ponchielli di Cremona, Kiel Summer Festival, Teatro Regio in Parma; Laura Adorno in La Gioconda Teatro Statna Opera State Banska Bystrica; Puccini’s Trittico (Frugola - Zia Principessa - Zita) at the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara; Zia Principessa in Suor Angelica at the Castell'Arquato Summer Festival; Fricka  in Die Walküre at the Theater in Kiel; Suzuki  in Madama Butterfly at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples (Steinberg/Delbono), Teatro Comunale di Bologna (Steinberg/ Michieletto); Olga in Evgenij Onegin, Adriano in Rienzi,  Fenena in Nabucco at the Theater in Kiel; Filipyevna in Evgenij Onegin at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna (Shokhakimov/ Trelinski); Federica in Luisa Miller at the Opera Royal de Wallonie in Liège; Adalgisa in Norma in Asti; Sara in Roberto Devereux at the Opera in Rome (Campanella); Bergere - Un Patre - La Chatte - l’Ecureuil in L'Enfant et les Sortilèges and La Cieca in La Gioconda at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Maddalena in Rigoletto in Savona; Gertrude in Romeo et Juliette, Carmen (Mercedes) at the Arena in Verona; El Amor Brujo at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; Cavalleria Rusticana in Cagliari.
Active also on the concert side she performed Donizetti’s Requiem in Rome under the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti; Verdi’s Requiem in Palma de Maiorca, Lirico in Cagliari, St. Petersburg, Auditorium in Milan, in Pisa and Seoul; Mozart’s Coronation Mass in Bologna under Roberto Abbado; Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Accademia in Santa Cecilia in Rome; Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle at La Toscanini in Parma; Mozart’s Requiem at the Filarmonico in Verona; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Bologna; a Gala Concert in Piacenza.

Plans include: Aida in Karlsruhe; Evgenij Onegin at La Monnaie in Brussels; La Forza del Destino at the Comunale in Bologna.

September 2022