Currently based in Munich, Christiana Aloneftis trained on invitation at the Bayerische Staatsoper, after completing further studies, on full scholarship, at the prestigious École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris. Aloneftis graduated from the University of Melbourne and Monash University (Australia) with a BMus and a DipLang Adv. Italian and a Master of Interpreting and Translation degree from Monash University. She is fluent in five languages.

The “genuine discovery…who perform(s) with a captivating stage presence, both in her personality and richly-coloured voice” (Wiesbadener Tagblatt), has performed a variety of roles including Barbarina (Weimar), Musetta (Connecticut Lyric Opera), Zerlina, Susanna, Despina (North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra), Annina with Opera Classica Europa / Rhein-Main Philharmoniker Frankfurt and Tsarevna in the Australian premiere of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Kashchey the Immortal at the Melbourne Recital Centre where she was noted for “float(ing) the voice with seemingly cautious delicacy, the top range clear and projecting strongly.” Her repertoire currently comprises of full-lyric and some young lirico-spinto roles. 

A semi-finalist in the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award (2019), Christiana Aloneftis won the Wagner Society Victoria AUS Young Artist Award (2018), was a finalist in the 2017 Australian Opera Awards and winner of the Acclaim Rotary Scholarship (2017) and that same year made her US debut with Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. She won the 2016 Mike Walsh Fellowship Award and the 2015 Cyprus Vocal Scholarship Competition.

Prior to the pandemic, she made two professional oratorio debuts as the soprano soloist in the Requiem (KV 626 Mozart) with the Cyprus Philharmonic Orchestra and in the Coronation Mass (KV 317 Mozart) in Munich.

In addition to her formal studies, the young soprano participated in various masterclasses at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala and with Luciana Serra, the Cyprus National Symphony Orchestra. Lella Cuberli, Aris Christofellis, Dimitri Kavrakos, Barbara Frittoli and Giovanna Canetti.

She has appeared as a soloist and featured guest in: Apollon International Magazine (Cyprus), Volksfreund (Germany), Wiesbadener Tagblatt (Germany), local Melburnian press: Neos Kosmos, Il Globo, The Melbourne Observer (Australia) as well as broadcasts by 3MBS Fine Music Melbourne, SBS Radio Greek and Italian, 3ZZZ Radio Melbourne and Rete Italia.

Although, her young performance career takes centre stage, the young soprano is not only a “…gorgeous, resonant soprano voice perform(ing) with strong musical and dramatic commitment” (Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute). She is passionate about libretto and its centrality in enhancing operatic performance.

Christiana Aloneftis is fast establishing herself in the international theatre world as a highly-competent Lyric Diction Coach, Industry Strategist and Arts World Mediator 

Since her internships at both Opera Australia and the Bayerische Staatsoper (2020/2021 season) she now works on project contract at theatres, educational institutions and in collaboration with artistic agencies. Her private coaching practice includes a range of emerging artists and established professionals from the Bayerische Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden, Saarländisches Staatstheater, Oldenburger Staatstheater, Opera Australia, Victorian Opera, West Australian Opera, Opera Scholars Australia, Melbourne Opera, Mozarteum Salzburg, Berlin Opera Academy, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, The University of Gothenburg's Academy of Music and Drama and Örebro universitet Musikhögskolan just to name a few.

At the end of 2021, Aloneftis was announced as the winner of the 2021 CHASS Prize for Distinctive Work awarded by the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Australia for her"excellent and diverse contributions to the arts, as a performer and coach". In that same year, she won awards from GVL (Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten), Deutscher Musikrat and the Bavarian State Scholarship Programme for Young Artists.

In 2022, Christiana was, once again, awarded a small career grant from the Deutscher Musikrat and is currently preparing her professional Liederabend debut in the coming season 2022/2023 with the prestigious Pharos Arts Foundation in Cyprus.