Christina Hager
Cherubino
Flora Bervoix

    Shreveport audiences may remember Christina Hager as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly and Mercedes in Carmen.
     Additionally, Christina most recently created the role of Sadie in the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s opera, Morning Star. As 2004 and 2005 Young Artist at Seagle Music Colony, she portrayed the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos, Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus (Opening Night Gala) and starred in Hot! The Music of Cole Porter. Other operatic roles include the title role in Handel’s Rinaldo, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, Flora in La traviata, and La Badessa in Suor Angelica. While at the Moores School of Music, Ms. Hager portrayed the Stewardess in Jonathon Dove’s Flight and the Baroness in Massenet’s Chérubin. Both were Houston premieres.
Ms. Hager also has several music theatre credits, her favorites including Marguerite in The Scarlet Pimpernel, Smitty in How to Succeed in Business…and both Virtue and Charity in Anything Goes.
     In the spring of 2006, Ms. Hager completed her Masters in Music at the University of Houston, where she studied with renowned tenor Joseph Evans. A native of Kansas City, she has sung with the Kansas City Civic Opera, and performed in numerous musicals with Theatre in the Park and Leawood Stage Company. While an undergraduate at Texas Christian University, where she was granted degrees in both Music and English, Christina regularly sang in the Fort Worth Opera Chorus. Ms. Hager was a Semi-Finalist in the 2007 Shreveport Singer of the Year Competition, and placed as a three-time finalist at the Texas NATS competition, in addition to winning the Musical Theatre division.
     She most recently performed in Orlando, where she was selected as a participant of Sherrill Milnes’ VOICExperience program.