Dr. Christina Raphaëlle Haldane - Voice
Dr. Christina Raphaëlle Haldane (she/ her), soprano has an international career as an opera singer, orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. She has interpreted many lead opera roles, having performed for opera houses such as The Finnish National Opera, The Royal Opera Covent Garden, Scottish Opera and Musica Viva Hong Kong. Her specialisms include Handel’s heroines, comedic bel canto, and contemporary music collaborations with living composers. She is a critically acclaimed recording artist whose work fuses Western art music with other styles, such as folk, jazz, and the avant-garde. Christina’s performance experience informs her pedagogy, which is grounded on equity, empathy, collaboration, voice research and science, and student-centered goals.
Christina joined the Mount Allison University community in 2022, as an Assistant Professor in Voice at the Department of Music. Her ethos of collaboration and connectivity leads her to foster meaningful relationships with students, faculty, community partners, and music industry professionals, to enable an affirming voice community at MtA to thrive. She has an international profile as a leader, clinician, and adjudicator and is grateful for her path as a lifelong learner, scholar, and teaching artist.
For her formal training Christina enjoyed a broad international vocal education. Christina received a BMus from the University of Toronto, spent a year at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, was awarded an MMus from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and a DMA from the University of Toronto.
Christina lives in Moncton, New Brunswick, with her partner Patrice and their two diva dog Pomeranians, Wally and Sissi.
