Christine Renée Keene, soprano, has been praised for her “remarkable hall-filling voice” and her “well-supported soprano…drawing just a little reverb from the beams and walls”. - Anchorage Daily News

Recently returned from a year living and working in Vienna, Austria, she has been increasingly active with opera companies around Alaska –- including the role of Abel in the Alaskan premiere of Pablo Sorozobal's La Tabernera del Puerto; elementary school performances with Opera Fairbanks’ Green Eggs and Ham; and understudy to Rosina in Anchorage Opera’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia.

Other roles include Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Norina (Don Pasquale), Flora (The Turn of the Screw), Cissie Woodger and Miss Wordsworth (Albert Herring), Mrs. Nordstrom (A Little Night Music), Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice) and has played the title role in Little Red's Most Unusual Day and Little Red Riding Hood.

In Europe, she was seen as Despina (Cosí fan tutte) and Zaïde (Zaïde) with the Amadeus Opernensemble in Salzburg, Austria. Her concert repertoire includes soloist in Carmina Burana, Messiah, and Handel's Dixit Dominus and is an avid recitalist.

An Alaskan at heart, Christine was the 1st place winner of the 2001 and 2002 Anchorage Concert Chorus Vocal Competitions and the 2001 NATS Vocal Competition, as well as the 2004 Anchorage Festival of Music’s Young Alaskan Artist. In 2007, Christine was a member of the Anchorage Opera's Young Artist Program and in August 2008 she won top honors in the annual Dean Allen Competition hosted by Ms. Gloria Allen.

Christine received her master of music from Florida State University and attended her undergraduate studies at both the University of Alaska and the University of Oregon.

Her upcoming engagements include concerts in South Africa; Suor Genevieve in Anchorage Opera's Suor Angelica; and the role of Cherubino in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with Juneau Lyric Opera in spring 2010 .