Christine Bunning has had a sparkling career as a leading soprano that has spanned thirty years. A career that began with backing Souxie and the Banshies has led her to singing Lady Macbeth at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. She has sung all over the world and gained enormous insight and experience of differing styles of music.

Christine studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. in London, and after winning prizes for opera and for german lieder singing, she specialised in french song in St Jean de Luz before further studies took her to Vienna. On her return to England she worked with the New Sadlers Wells Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

Opera success included working with Sir Charles Mckerras, Sir Edward Downes and Sir Simon Rattle at Royal Opera House, at English National Opera; Opera North, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Hebel Theatre in Berlin, Opera Zuid, Pocket Opera Nuremburg and Opera Factory London. For Raymond Gubbay at the Royal Albert Hall she has sung Aida and Santuzza and also Agrafena in the world premier of A Family Affair at the Almeida Festival for ENO Contemporary Opera Studio.

Her teaching career began when she was herself still a student, and now she has built up an impressive list of private pupils.