Other engagements include Marguerite in "Faust" with Opera Pacifica and Micaela in "Carmen" and Lauretta in "Schicci" with Vashon Opera. Her favorite roles are Mimi, the Contessa and Cio Cio San, which she has performed with the Seattle Opera Guild, the Portland Summer Fest, Kitsap Opera, Skagit Opera, Washington East Opera and Rogue Opera. Kowalski-Holien also appeared as Anna Gomez in "The Consul", Inez in "Il Trovatore" and Barbarina in "The Marriage of Figaro" at Portland Opera. She toured with the Portland Opera's "POW" program, where she performed Pamina in "The Magic Flute" and Clorinda in "La Cenerentola" throughout Washington and Oregon State. She became a student of famed American Soprano Ellen Faull and made her debut in the United States as Marzelline in Beethoven's "Fidelio" at the Mark Theater in Portland Oregon. Kowalski-Holien held an all-Schubert Recital by invitation of the Viennese Society for Young and Promising Talent in Vienna, and was a member of the Lied-Klasse of Professor Charles Spencer in Frankfurt, Kammer Saengerin Gundula Janowitz in Vienna and Ms. Kowalski-Holien also toured with the "Febi Armonici" and the La Stagione Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Michael Schneider throughout Germany where she appeared as Amore in "Poppea" at the Stadttheater Eisenach and the Berliner Philharmonie.
She appeared in productions by the Frankfurt Opera Studio as the Governess in "Turn of the screw" and Parascha in Stravinsky's "Mavra", performed the role of Vespetta in "Pimpinone" at the Sommer-Stadttheater Schiffenberg and was the Sand –and Taumann in "Haensel und Gretel" in a production of the Orchester Gesellschaft Frankfurt. Kowalski-Holien is a native of Germany, where she graduated with a Masters in Music and Drama from the Hochschule für Musik und Kunst in Frankfurt am Main.
Christina Kowalski-Holien, lirico spinto sopranoĬhristina Kowalski-Holien is known for the unique dark timbre of her voice, her "glowing heights and warm depths" excite audiences in the U.S.A.
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