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 voice is particularly at home in the music of the bel canto, romantic and veristic periods, and has been featured on NPR's "Performance Today," America's most popular classical music radio program.  Passionate about spreading love for the art form while creating opportunities for fellow artists, 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.

This season, Christine returns to Sarasota Opera as a Resident Artist, where she will debut two new roles. In addition to singing numerous public and private concerts as well as outreach engagements throughout the region, she will cover the role of Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte. Notable fall concert appearances as a soloist with the company include Orchid Evening with Sarasota Opera, presented at Marie Selby Botantical Gardens and Moonlight and Melodies: Under the Stars with Mozart. Following the fall, she will continue performing with Sarasota Opera as a Studio Artist for their Winter 2026 Festival Season, covering the role of Mimì in Puccini's La bohème. In the summer, Christine will make her company debut as a Resident Artist with Teatro Nuovo, where she will be covering the role of Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni and singing in the chorus of Rossini's Il turco in Italia at Lincoln Center in New York City.​​​

In recent seasons, Christine performed roles such as Gertrud in Hansel and Gretel, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Angelica in Puccini's Suor Angelica, Rosalinde in Strauss II's Die Fledermaus, La Ciesca in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Zweite Dame in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. She has sung in various concerts, outreach events, and operas with organizations such as Sarasota Opera, Knoxville Opera, Amelia Island Opera, Bold City Opera, Tennessee Opera Theatre, Marble City Opera, Beaches Fine Arts Series, Florida State Opera,  Brancaleoni International Music Festival, Amalfi Coast Music and Arts Festival, and the Vienna Summer Music 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 selected participant of the Professional Artist Workshop at Gulfshore Opera and is an alum of both the Knoxville Opera Studio and the Palm Beach Opera Studio; additionally, she was an Apprentice Artist, Studio Artist, and Resident Artist with Sarasota Opera. 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 and attended Florida State University College of Music for her undergraduate studies, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in both Music and Italian.