Christine Brandes

Noted soprano Christine Brandes performs at many of the world’s most distinguished festivals and concert halls. She has sung principle roles for the following opera companies: San Francisco, Seattle, Washington National, Houston Grand, Minnesota, New York City Opera, Philadelphia, Glimmerglass, Portland, among others.

She has also sung with the following orchestras:  Cleveland, Chicago, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Atlanta, Detroit, Seattle, Minnesota, National Symphony, with such distinguished conductors as Sir Simon Rattle, Pierre Boulez, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Nicholas McGegan, among many others.

As a conductor, Ms. Brandes has led Haydn’s Armida and Rameau’s Sympathy for Victory Hall Opera (Charlottesville), Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice and Handel’s Giulio Cesare for West Edge Opera. Christine made her debut with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra in the fall of 2022 and her debut with the Virginia Symphony in performances of Handel’s Messiah in December of 2022. Christine was one of seven conductors selected from an international pool of applicants for the 2021 Dallas Opera Hart Institute for Women Conductors. She makes her Seattle Opera conducting debut in the fall of 2023 with Handel’s Alcina.

She is the director of the UC Berkeley University Baroque Ensemble and associate conductor of the Oakland Civic Orchestra.