Praised for her "enticing strength and marvelous vocal character" (Arts Knoxville), Christine Alfano's powerful and sparkling voice has charmed audiences at home and abroad. Her "luscious" voice is particularly at home in the music of the bel canto, romantic and veristic periods. Her singing has been featured on NPR's "Performance Today," America's most popular classical music radio program.  This season, she was awarded the 2025 Emerging Artist Award from the First Coast Cultural Center in recognition of her work to advance the arts through opera in Northeast Florida.

​The 2024-2025 season features three role debuts, as well as an apprenticeship and studio artist residency with Sarasota Opera. Christine will perform the role Gertrud in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel in her company debut with Amelia Island Opera under the baton of Maestro Keith Chambers. In early December, Christine will return to Saint-Saëns' Oratorio de Noël as the Soprano Soloist. She will spend three months as an Apprentice Artist with Sarasota Opera during their Winter 2025 season, performing in Verdi's Stiffelio, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. Springtime will feature her return to Amelia Island Opera to sing the role of Kate Pinkerton and to study cover the title role in Madama Butterfly. In fall 2025, she will return to Sarasota Opera as a Studio Artist, where she will cover the role of Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte.

Last season, Christine performed Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 with the UK-based VIDA Guitar Quartet for Beaches Fine Arts Series. The 2023-2024 season also featured her role debut as Angelica in Puccini's Suor Angelica with Bold City Opera and her appearance as the soprano soloist in Saint-Saëns' Oratorio de Noël and in Vivaldi's Gloria with The Bolles School. 

A passionate advocate for new music, she has performed in several world premieres, most notably Marble City Opera's production of Pesci's Royal Flush. Other recent new-music credits include Psychiatrist in A Severed Chord with Voices of the Valiant and Ms. Dara in An Embarrassing Position with Tennessee Opera Theatre. Other roles from prior seasons include Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus and Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte, both with Tennessee Opera Theatre. Notable international credits include La Ciesca in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi with the Brancaleoni International Music Festival and the Amalfi Coast Music and Arts Festival. In 2022, she was a featured soloist at the Ehrbarsaal in Vienna, Austria, where she performed arias and duets from Bellini’s Norma and Mozart’s Don Giovanni. 

Christine was a participant in the 2022-2023 Professional Artist Workshop at Gulfshore Opera and is an alum of both the Knoxville Opera Studio and the Palm Beach Opera Studio. She currently studies with Jennifer Rowley; previous teachers have included Kirsten Chambers, Dr. Kimberly Roberts, and Daniel Belcher. She received her Master of Music degree in Voice Performance and her Graduate Certificate in Music Theory Pedagogy from the University of Tennessee College of Music in 2022, where she was the Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Tennessee Opera Theatre. She attended Florida State University College of Music for her undergraduate work, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in both Music and Italian. She is the co-founder and current artistic advisor of Bold City Opera in Jacksonville, Florida.