American soprano Christine Brewer was born in Illinois. She began her professional career with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, with whom she has performed Ellen Orford, Donna Anna and the title roles in Ariadne auf Naxos and Haydn's Armida. In America Christine Brewer has appeared with the orchestras of Atlanta, Cleveland, Houston, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Toronto, San Francisco (under both Norrington and Tilson-Thomas) and New York (under Masur).
She has appeared regularly with the major British Orchestras, at the BBC Promenade Concerts, and the Vienna Musikverein, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Berlin Konzerthaus. Her recent engagements include concerts with John Adams, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Raymond Leppard, Mark Wigglesworth, Andrew Litton, John Nelson, Sir Neville Marriner, Wolfgang Sawallisch and Ivan Fischer. Recent engagements have included the gala concerts to re-open the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (under Bernard Haitink), Dallapiccola’s Il Prigioniero at the Monnaie, Brussels (under Antonio Pappano) and the BBC Proms (Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass under Sir Andrew Davies and Die Walküre under Donald Runnicles). Her recordings include Janácek's Glagolitic Mass and Dvorák's Te Deum with Robert Shaw, Don Giovanni under Sir Charles Mackerras and she appears in Graham Johnson's complete Schubert Edition for Hyperion.
In opera, Christine Brewer has sung Countess Almaviva with the New York City Opera and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. She has sung Donna Anna at the Edinburgh Festival (under Sir Charles Mackerras) and in London, New York and Florida. She made her debut with English National Opera as Ariadne, sang Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride in Madrid, Leonora in Fidelio with the St Paul Chamber Orchestra (and Hugh Wolff) and has sung both Ariadne and Weber's Oberon with Richard Hickox in London. She made her debut at the 1999 Santa Fe Festival as Ariadne, returning for Die Aegyptische Helena.
Christine Brewer’s recent engagements include Ariadne auf Naos” in both Lyon and Paris and appearances at the BBC Proms (Gurreliede” under Donald Runnicles and Mahler’s 8th Symphony under Sir Simon Rattle). Her future engagements include her first Isolde with the BBC Symphony and Runnicles, Britten’s Gloriana with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Hickox and her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Ariadne under James Levine.