Praised for her “astounding vocal expressivity” and “soaring full voice”, Christina Pecce is a singing-actress who crosses over the genres of opera, musical theatre, jazz, and performance art. She was most recently seen as Aldonza in Timber Lake Playhouse’s production of Man Of La Mancha and before that Earth To Kenzie and Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Production) with Lyric Opera of Chicago. In 2020, she earned the Toian Bowser-Alexander Award while participating in The American Traditions Competition. Her cabaret series Witches, Bitches, and Divas! has been featured at Feinstein's/54 Below, The Green Room 42, A.R.T.’s Oberon, Club Café, The Den Theatre, Stage 773, and Davenport's Piano Bar. Deemed “truly spellbinding” by NiteLife Exchange, songs from your favorite standards, musicals, and operas are given a fresh spin to keep you enchanted and bewildered. Additionally, she has performed with Chicago Opera Theater (L’autre moi), Chicago Fringe Opera (The Great God Pan, Tom Waits’ Woyzeck), Grant Park Orchestra (Broadway’s Lerner and Loewe), Out Of The Box Opera (Diva Cage Match), Fort Worth Opera (Carmen, Voir Dire), Boston Opera Collaborative (To Hell And Back, Rinaldo), The Company Theatre (Legally Blonde, Mary Poppins), NextDoor Theater (A Little Night Music), and Fiddlehead Theatre (Show Boat) among others. In 2015, she took part in the U.S. premiere of Lee Mingwei’s Sonic Blossom, a performance art piece featured at the MFA.
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