Christiane Boesiger studied with Hans Hotter and Sena Jurinac. After first engagements in her native town, Luzern and then Biel, Switzerland, she signed a year’s contract with the Studio of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Afterwards she became a member of the ensemble of Vienna Volksoper and Munich State Theatre ‘Am Gärtnerplatz’ for several years.
At the same time, her international guest appearances began to attract the music world’s attention. As a ‘Lyric coloratura soprano’, she mainly concentrated on Mozart (from Susanna to Konstanze, her Vienna Susanna having been recorded by the Austrian TV in Marco Arturo Marelli’s Mozart cycle), on virtuoso Belcanto roles by Bellini and Donizetti, as well as on opera works from the 20th century. Her repertoire extended from the lyricisms of Sophie in Rosenkavalier to the extreme challenges both in terms of voice and dramatic performance such as Alban Berg’s Lulu, a role she performed with huge success in Vienna in 1994, and in Mannheim in 1998, highly acclaimed by the audience and critics. During the same year she made her debut as Ilja (Idomeneo) in Salzburg.
New roles in Christiane Boesiger’s repertoire continue to prove her great versatility. In the autumn of 1998, she sang the roles of Olympia, Antonia and Giulietta in Les Contes d’Hoffmann in Klagenfurt before making her debut in June 1999 in the role of Mélisande in Pelléas and Mélisande in Linz. She started off into the 1999/2000 season with an impressing debut as Konstanze in Abduction from the Serail in Klagenfurt and then had a huge success as Pamina in a new production of Zauberflöte with Harry Kupfer at the Salzburg Landestheater. In July 2000, Christiane Boesiger captivated her Spanish audience at the Gran Teatro del Liceo in Barcelona with a recital of songs by Kurt Weill and Arnold Schönberg.
During the 2000/2001 season, she made her outstanding debut as Ann Trulove in Stravinsky's Rake's Progress and had a great success as Pamina at the Komische Oper Berlin. Her interpretation of Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Menotti's Telephone was equally well received by audiences and critics at the Salzburger Landestheater, where she also returned to sing Adele in The Bat by Johann Strauss.
Apart from her opera appearances, Christiane Boesiger greatly enjoys performing Lieder and oratorios. She is a welcome guest of international festivals and concert halls.