Cristina Battistella graduated in Piano at the age of 17 at the Conservatorio "Benedetto Marcello" in Venice. She graduated with honors in “Piano Accompanist” and in “Vocal Chamber Music” at the "A. Pedrollo" Conservatory in Vicenza. In 2022, she graduated as Opera Coach (Repetiteur) at the “La Scala Academy” in Milan.

In January 2015 she was chosen to participate in the course for opera coaches promoted by the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto. From February to July 2020, she participated in the "Paradiso del Talento", an advanced course for conductors and assistant conductors dedicated to the study of Italian Opera held by Giancarlo Andretta at the Eden Theatre in Treviso.

As an Opera Coach, she worked at the “Royal Opera House” in Oman “Teatro Opera Carlo Felice” in Genoa, the “Teatro alla Scala” in Milan “Teatro Olimpico” in Vicenza, the “Teatro Lirico Sperimentale” in Spoleto, the Teatro “Il Giglio” in Lucca, the Teatro Goldoni in Livorno, the Teatro in Pisa, Festival Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca.

She worked with conductors such as Nicola Paszkoski, Ettore Papadia, Avishay Shalom, Kevin Class, Bruno Nicoli, Vitali Alekseenok, Paolo Spadaro Munitto, Ottavio Dantone, Sesto Quatrini, Renato Renzetti, Fabio Luisi and directors such as Fabio Sparvoli, Davide Garattini, Rebecca Jo Loeb, Saskia Kuhlmann, Polly Graham, Irina Brook, Laurence Dale, Cesare Lievi, Gianluca Falaschi.

Since November 2017, she has been working as Piano Accompanist in singing classes, vocal chamber music, and stage act at the Conservatory of Vicenza. Since March 2023, she has been working as vocal coach at the La Scala Academy in Milan.