Praised for her lush sound and powerful expression, soprano Christine Moore Vassallo is a versatile performer with equal authority in opera, oratorio, art song, and contemporary music. Her career includes engagements as Mimi in La Bohème over several seasons with the Leipzig Opera in Germany, where she was praised by the Leipziger Volkszeitung as “a warm, dark voice rings out as Mimi.” A Regional Finalist (Pacific Region) in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the California native has sung the title roles in Madama Butterfly, Aida, Ariadne auf Naxos and Suor Angelica, Alice Ford in Falstaff, Micaela in Carmen, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Leonora in Il Trovatore. Christine is active in the performance of art song in all languages, with a particular focus on Spanish, and has sung in several concerts in Granada and Madrid with the Festival de Canción Española.  Christine has premiered many new works by living composers, including Richard Thompson's song cycle The Shadow of Dawn at Merkin Concert Hall and the New York premiere of his opera The Mask in the Mirror, Andrew Rudin’s Masha’s Arias, and works by Michael Rose, Kareem Roustom, Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Steve Gerber and Zaid Jabri with the Brooklyn New Music Collective. In 2008 she sang the world premiere of Mohammed Fairouz’s Tahwidah, written for her and esteemed composer and clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, and in 2013 curated and performed in a concert at the Library at Lincoln Center dedicated to classical works by Arab composers, entitled “Nearer to East: Chamber Music from the Arab World.” Recordings include the recently released “Christine Moore – Arias” and the recently released From Al Andalus to the Americas – An Odyssey of Spanish Song (Meridian Records UK, 2024), lauded by BBC3 and Classical Music Daily, among other media. She is currently working on an art song project with celebrated composer and pianist Patricio Molina on his setting of poems by Arab women living in Spain’s medieval Al Andalus period.
Christine made her UK debut in 2005 at the Paxton Chamber Music Festival in Scotland with Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire (described as “colourful and evocative” by the Glasgow Herald), and has premiered many new works by living composers, including Richard Thompson's song cycle The Shadow of Dawn and the New York premiere of his opera The Mask in the Mirror, Andrew Rudin’s Masha’s Arias, and works by Michael Rose, Kareem Roustom, Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Steve Gerber and Zaid Jabri with the Brooklyn New Music Collective. In 2008 she sang the world premiere of Mohammed Fairouz’s Tahwidah, written for her and clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, and in 2013 curated and participated in a concert at the Library at Lincoln Center dedicated to classical works by Arab composers, entitled “Nearer to East: Chamber Music from the Arab World.” Later that year she made her Italy debut at the Narnia Music Festival in arias and ensembles celebrating the 200th birthday of Verdi. She speaks five languages and sings in ten, and has given numerous solo recitals featuring works of all genres of repertoire and languages, including in Granada and Madrid with Festival de Canción Española, Trinity Concert Series in New York, the Library at Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Old Stone House. Radio appearances include WNYE and WBAI (New York City) and KRZA (New Mexico). Her first recording, Christine Moore -Arias with the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Musical Concepts) was released in 2006. Future performances and projects include Ravel’s Chanson Madécasses at the Lunigiana International Music Festival and the release of her latest recording, From Al Andalus to the Americas–An Odyssey of Spanish Song (Meridian Records, UK).

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