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Cristina Deutekom (born Christine Engel in Amsterdam, August 28, 1931) is a Dutch opera singer. Renowned for her coloratura technique, she is also known as Christine Deutekom and Christina Deutekom.

After some smaller roles, her break through came in 1963, portraying the Queen Of The Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at De Nederlandse Opera. She then sang the same role at all major European opera houses and also at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1968. In 1974 she opened the MET season next to Plácido Domingo as Elena in I vespri siciliani.

Meanwhile she had been extending her repertoire. Besides the Queen of the Night, her Mozart roles included Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) and Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito). She also scored triumphant successes in Italy in the great bel canto roles of Rossini (Armida), Bellini (Norma, I puritani) and Donizetti (Lucia di Lammermoor). She went on to achieve international fame in a repertoire that also embraced the great dramatic Verdi roles (Abigaile in Nabucco, Lady Macbeth, Leonora in Il trovatore, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera, Elena in I vespri siciliani and the roles that were captured in commercial recordings: Giselda in I Lombardi and Odabella in Atilla). She finally went on to sing the title role in Puccini's Turandot. Her voice was that of a dramatic coloratura, although lirico spinto with an incredible coloratura technique would probably be more accurate. She sang with vitually all the leading tenors of her time: Franco Corelli, Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Alfredo Kraus, Carlo Bergonzi and Nicolai Gedda.

Cristina's stage career ended in 1985, when she suffered a heart attack. She turned to giving master classes internationally. As of 2001, she was a guest teacher at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague. After suffering a stroke in 2004 she retired from public life.

• Beethoven - Fidelio (Marzelline)
• Bellini - Beatrice di Tenda (Beatrice), Bianca e Fernando (Bianca), Norma (Norma), I Puritani (Elvira)
• Cherubini - Medea (Medea)
• Donizetti - Anna Bolena (Anna Bolena), Lucia di Lammermoor (Lucia)
• Mozart - Cosi fan tutte (Fiordiligi), Don Giovanni (Donna Anna), La Clemenza di Tito (Vitellia), Die Zauberflöte (Königin der Nacht)
• Händel - Alcina (Alcina)
• Puccini - Turandot (Turandot)
• Rossini - Armida (Armida), Mosè in Egitto (Sinaide), Semiramide (Semiramide)
• Saint-Saëns - Henry VIII (Catherine de Aragon)
• Strauss, R. - Der Rosenkavalier (Marianne Leitmetzerin)
• Verdi - Alzira (Alzira), Attila (Odabella), Un Ballo in maschera (Amelia), I Lombardi (Giselda), Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), I Masnadieri (Amalia), Nabucco (Abigaille), Rigoletto (Gilda), Simone Boccanegra (Amelia/Maria), Il Trovatore (Leonora), I Vespri Siciliani (Elena)
• Wagner - Götterdämmerung (Woglinde), Das Rheingold (Woglinde), Die Walküre (Walküre)

• Knight in the order of Orange-Nassau, 1974
• Singer of the year, Milan, 1974
• Singer of the year, Milan, 1973
• Premio Romeo e Juliët, Verona, 1972
• Rigoletto d'Oro, Mantova, 1973
• Monteverdi d'Oro, Venezia, 1972
• Palco Icenico d'Oro, Mantova, 1971
• Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy, Paris, 1968
• Arena d'Oro, Verona, 1976

• Biography of Cristina Deutekom from DutchDivas.net
• Picture of Cristina Deutekom from Opera-L
• Watch Cristina Deutekom on YouTube