Christine Buras - Soprano
Soprano Christine Buras is a versatile artist, equally at home on the operatic and concert stages, whose repertoire ranges from early music, to opera, to contemporary performance art. She received her BA in Music History and Theory from the University of Chicago, and subsequently undertook her vocal training at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London. She currently studies with American soprano Pamela Kuhn. Operatic roles include both Susanna and Contessa Almaviva (Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro / Kennet Opera, Fortismere Festival Orchestra), Cupid (Purcell King Arthur / Dartington International Festival), Suor Dolcina and La Prima Sorella Cercatrice (Puccini Suor Angelica / Royal Academy Opera), Hélène (Chabrier Une Éducation Manquée / Pop-Up Opera), Lucy (Menotti The Telephone / Salon Opera), Theodora (Handel Theodora / Benslow Opera), and Belinda and Second Woman (Purcell Dido and Aeneas / Indiana University, Shipwright Opera). In concert she has performed as soprano soloist at venues such as St. Martin-in-the-Fields and St. John Smith Square, and in works including the Bach St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, and B minor mass; Handel Messiah, Dixit Dominus, Judas Maccabaeus, and Samson; Mozart Exsultate jubilate, Requiem, and C minor mass; Haydn Creation; Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem; Mendelssohn Elijah; and the Verdi Requiem. She is a founding member of the award-winning Ensemble x.y, a contemporary mixed chamber ensemble, as well as x.y song, a group of singers and pianist who together endeavour to commission and perform contemporary Art Song. She is a founding member of the Hampstead Collective.