German soprano Christiane Libor was born in Berlin and started her musical education as a child taking piano lessons. She studied at the Musikhochschule "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin, until 1996 with Prof. Annelies Fried, and from 1997 to 1999 an additional course of studies which she finished by passing her concert diploma "with distinction". She also attended the lied class of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. She counts Julia Varady amongst her teachers and attended master-classes of Edith Mathis, Hans Hotter, Peter Schreier and Josef Protschka. 1996/97 she received the O. E. Hasse awarded by the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and was a prizewinner at the 7th International Mozart Competition in Salzburg in 1999.
Already during her studies she participated in numerous productions of independent opera companies, amongst others she performed Konstanze in Mozart's Entführung aus dem Serail, Gräfin in Lortzing's Wildschütz and Gräfin in Mozarts Le Nozze di Figaro. In 1999, she was engaged for the part of Erste Dame in Mozarts Zauberflöte at the Dutch National Reisoper in Enschede. She also sang this role in the subsequent years, then under the baton of Ton Koopman as well as at the Staatsopher Hamburg where she had already made her debut in 1999 in John Neumeier's ballet staging of Handel's Messiah. The National Reisoper re-engaged her in 2002 for Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelio.
She devotes special attention to concert and oratorio; already as a student she performed in Germany and abroad. She toured Spain, Poland and Estonia and performed in Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy. In 1997 she made her debut at the Schubertiade Feldkirch in the series "Young artists at Schloß Achberg", in 2000 she sang at the Richard-Strauss-Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. She appeared with the BSO under M. Schønwandt, the Staatskapelle Berlin, Württembergisches Kammerorchester under Jörg Faerber, Gächinger Kantorei under Helmuth Rilling, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester under Frieder Bernius and the Orchester der Hamburgischen Staatsoper under Ingo Metzmacher. In 2001, she undertook a tour of South America under Wolfgang Gönnenwein.
In 2003, Christiane Libor will sing Agathe in Weber's Freischütz at the National Reisoper.