Christine Buras

American soprano Christine Buras is a versatile and experienced performer of a wide range of repertoire including early music, opera, art song, and new music. Her operatic roles include Theodora (Handel’s Theodora) for Benslow Opera, and Belinda (Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas) for Indiana University. Christine has also performed scenes of Anne Trulove (Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress), Susanna (Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro), Blonde (Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Mademoiselle Silberklang (Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor), Abigail (Robert Ward’s The Crucible), and Marzelline (Beethoven’s Fidelio) for opera scenes at The Royal Academy of Music and Indiana University. She recently the roles of Suor Dolcina and La Prima Sorella Cercatrice in Royal Academy Opera's production of Puccini's Suor Angelica in November 2014. Christine particularly enjoys performing art song and oratorio. She recently had the privilege of performing Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and her repertoire also includes major works by J.S. Bach, Haydn, Handel, Rossini, Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Mozart. Last year, she performed on the inaugural art song recital series at Grosvenor Chapel in Mayfair, accompanied by pianist Tom Primrose, and was commended in the Major Van Someren-Godfrey Prize for English Song and the Marjorie Thomas Art of Song prize at the Royal Academy of Music. More recent highlights include a programme of songs by Judith Weir, Charles Koechlin, and Robert Schumann with pianists Rebecca Taylor and Gabija Butkute. Christine received her early musical education singing as a chorister at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, and later obtained her BA (with honours) in Music History and Theory from the University of Chicago and her Masters of Music at Indiana University’s prestigious Jacobs School of Music where she studied with mezzo-soprano Mary Ann Hart. She is currently a student of Julie Kennard and James Baillieu on the postgraduate Vocal Studies course at the Royal Academy of Music, and is grateful for the generous support of the Josephine Baker Trust, the Adah Rogalsky Scholarship, and the William Gibbs Educational and Religious Trust.