Christine Ebeling Mando
Mezzo-Soprano
About Christine
Mezzo-soprano Christine Ebeling Mando has performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Florentine Opera, Opera Festival of Chicago, MiOpera, Painted Sky Opera, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, and the Bay View Music Festival where she won the 2018 Adrian Boyer Aria Competition. The 2025 season sees her role debut as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly in her company debut with Opera on the James, as well as competing as a semi-finalist in the 37th Annual Annapolis Opera Vocal Competition. In 2025 she was awarded a Special Projects Grant by the Evanston Arts Council to present Elgar’s Op. 37 Sea Pictures in recital. She makes her Sinfonia da Camera debut as the alto soloist in Mozart Requiem and Beethoven Op. 80 Choral Fantasy, reprising the Mozart Requiem in Evanston, Illinois again on November 21, 2025 with the First Church Festival Chorus and Orchestra.
Christine’s other operatic roles include Dorabella in Così fan Tutte, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Didymus in Handel’s Theodora, Maurya in Vaughan William’s Riders to the Sea, Mother Goose in The Rake’s Progress, and Ursule in Béatrice et Bénédict. A frequent performer in her home base of Chicago, she sings with the Lyric Opera Stage Artists.
In 2023 she was one of eleven semi-finalists in the Vincenzo Bellini International Bel Canto Competition in Vendôme, France celebrating singers who excel in the bel canto repertoire of Bellini. The 2022 season saw her debut with the Opera Festival of Chicago to cover Isabella in Rossini’s L’inganno Felice. Past engagements included her debut with MiOpera as Mercedes in Carmen.