Biography

Christine Teare was born in the Isle of Man and trained at the Royal Academy of Music gaining her ARAM, FTCL ARCM and Dip RAM diplomas. She made her professional debut with Welsh National Opera as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni).

Her subsequent roles with the Welsh National Opera include Die Kaiserin (Die Frau Ohne Schatten), Amelia (Un Ballo in Maschera), the Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Ortlinde and Helmwige (Die Walküre) & Donna Anna.

With the Royal Opera, Covent Garden Christine Teare has sung the title role in Turandot, and Ortlinde, Helmwige and the Third Norn (Der Ring des Nibelungen); with English National Opera the Erste Dame (Zauberflüte), a Flower Maiden (Parsifal) and Berthe (Il Barbiere di Siviglia); and with Opera North Donna Anna (Don Giovanni).

Abroad, Christine Teare has sung Brünnhilde (Das Ringchen) for Pocket Opera Nuremburg, and Die Kaiserin (Die Frau Ohne Schatten) and Tosca for Augsburg.

On the concert platform, Christine Teare has appeared for all the major British orchestras in a wide range of work that includes Elgar’s The Kingdom, Verdi’s Requiem, Haydn’s Creation and Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder. She sang the role of Marietta in the British concert premier of Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and two concerts of excerpts from Wagner with the RTE Orchestra in Dublin, Christine Teare has made numerous appearances at venues in the UK as a regular contributor to Raymond Gubbay’s Opera Spectacular series, and recently sang the soprano solo in Mahler's symphony No. 8 - "Symphony of a 1000" in the Royal Albert Hall and the Birmingham Symphony Hall.