Canadian-born Dramatic Soprano Brenda Christensen has been living and working in Frankfurt, Germany for the past eleven years.
“A soprano with a fresh sound and electrifying high notes.”
With her more than twenty-seven years of performance experience across North America and Europe, Brenda Christensen’s powerful voice is as robust as the roles it was made for: Elisabeth (Tannhäuser), Sieglinde and Helmwige (Die Walküre), Senta (Der Fliegende Holländer) Freia (Das Rheingold), Leonore (Fidelio), Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes), Amelia (Un balló in maschera) and the title roles of Ariadne and Manon Lescaut.
As a solo recitalist, Brenda Christensen has extensive experience performing in Frankfurt and Cologne, Germany; Chios and Lesvos, Greece; Vermont, USA; and Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, New Brunswick and the Okanagan in British Columbia, Canada.
Her most noteworthy recitals include the honour of being the guest soloist at the farewell celebration for the now former Vice-President of the European Central Bank, Vítor Constâncio, in 2018, as well as a previous performance at the European Central Bank Arts Night in Frankfurt in 2016. A recording of both performances can be viewed on the Video page of this website.
Further notable highlights are two special recitals performed as part of a master classes taught by Cheryl Studer in Chios and Lesvos, Greece.
Over the course of her operatic career, Brenda Christensen has had the pleasure of receiving additional training with vocal coaches and teachers in Germany, Norway and Canada.
In Germany, the Dramatic Voices Program in Berlin granted her the opportunity to sing the role of Wagner’s Helwige from Die Walküre. While still living in Canada and as a member of the Opera Lyra Ottawa Young Artists program, she performed the role of the Witch in Hansel and Gretel at the Fourth Stage at the National Arts Center in Ottawa, Canada. She sang Berta in The Barber of Seville with the Toronto Summer Music Festival, and Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance with the Okanagan Vocal Arts Festival.
Brenda holds a Bachelor degree Music and Drama from Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, and completed a post-Baccalaureate diploma in Music Performance and Voice at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.
She has trained her voice with the likes of Deborah Polaski, Tracy Dahl, Joanne Kolomyjec and Robert MacLaren.
In addition to her own recitals and performances, Brenda owns and operates a successful voice studio in Frankfurt where she trains the next generation of singers, many of whom have gone on to secure roles at Opera Frankfurt and other venues. She has owned voice studios has been a voice teacher alongside her singing career for well over twenty years, in Frankfurt as well as previously in Winnipeg and Ottawa.