Originally from Viña del Mar, Chile, and currently based in Italy, Christine Hucke Cisternas is a stage director known for her interdisciplinary approach, creating meaningful connections between the works and contemporary audiences. Since completing her training in classical and contemporary dance, acting, and stage direction, she has developed a distinctive artistic language characterized by a strong dramaturgical awareness and a profound expressiveness.

After beginning her opera career at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, where she collaborated with renowned international stage directors, she moved to Italy to further specialize in opera staging through a Master’s degree in Opera Stage Direction at the Verona Opera Academy. This experience helped her deepen her artistic research through internships and assistant directing on diverse productions at leading European institutions, such as the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro alla Scala, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Teatro Real de Madrid, and the ABAO Bilbao Opera.

Her debut as a stage director with The Barber of Seville marked the beginning of a journey that would take her to prestigious stages, including the Abay Opera House in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where her production remains in the theatre’s repertoire to this day.

Titles such as Madama Butterfly and Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio) have been part of her stage productions, while her most recent opera projects feature Rigoletto, The Magic Flute, and Salome at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago in Chile.

Projects aimed at new audiences and artistic innovation also mark her career, such as developing the dramaturgical concept and stage direction for Mis Primeras Cuatro Estaciones (My First Four Seasons), an adaptation of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons designed for young audiences. She also directed the digital micro-opera La Compuerta N°12 (Gate N° 12) by Chilean composer Miguel Farías, which earned prestigious recognition in Chile for its cutting-edge format. In the field of dance, she collaborated with the Ballet Nacional Chileno (BANCH) to develop a new dramaturgical vision and stage production of The Nutcracker.

At the core of Christine Hucke’s artistic practice lies a commitment to forging a deep emotional connection between the work and its audience. Rather than treating the stage as a mere illustration of the score, she seeks to uncover the psychological and dramatic tensions embedded within each piece, transforming them into powerful theatrical images that resonate with contemporary spectators.

Her work, in constant evolution, positions her today as one of the prominent voices within Chilean stage direction.