Christine Boddicker is a mezzo-soprano born and raised in the Chicagoland area of Illinois. In the 2022-2023 season, Christine returns to Brevard Music Festival to perform as Mercédès (Carmen) and cover Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia). She will also join Indianapolis Opera as a fall Resident Artist. Favorite roles performed include Sesto (La clemenza di Tito) with Opera Steamboat, Charlotte (A Little Night Music), Sesto (Giulio Cesare), Angelina (La Cenerentola), and Giacinta (La finta semplice) with the Moores Opera Center. Previously, Christine has been a Young Artist with the Janiec Opera Company of the Brevard Music Center, where she performed as a soloist in Sondhiem on Sondheim (2018). As a 2019 Young Artist of Chicago Summer Opera she covered the role of Alice (Le comte Ory,) and in December 2019, she traveled to Wichita, Kansas to sing the role of La Zelatrice (Suor Angelica) with Music on Site Inc. In the summer of 2020, Christine had the privilege to rejoin the Janiec Opera Company as Dater #44 in the virtual premiere of ZOOM Speed Dating Tonight! Other recent virtual projects include operatic scenes with Miami Music Festival, and Sally (A Hand of Bridge) with the Moores Opera Center, where she also contributed with the graphic editing of the video (see Creative Studio). Christine has been selected as a semi-finalist in the 2022 Houston Saengerbund Awards, and received the First Place award in the 2021 MI Opera Voice Competition, as well as Second place in 2019. Christine holds a Master of Music degree in vocal performance from the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, where she studied voice with mezzo-soprano Melanie Sonnenberg. Christine completed a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance at Michigan State University, where she studied with mezzo-soprano Jane Bunnell.