Christian Sineath

Early life

Sineath began performing when she was 13, after being cast as a singing and dancing moth in Babes in Toyland. She was cast in numerous regional and community theatre productions after that.

Sineath graduated from Peace College in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she was a regular winner of regional and state level NATS competitions under the classical and musical theatre categories. She was also a member of the Janiec Opera Company at Brevard Music Center.

Career

After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance, Sineath moved to New York City where she began her professional career in oratorio, musical theatre and various theatre productions. During her post-graduate studies at Manhattan School of Music, where she graduated with a master's degree in Classical Voice, she performed in many operas, cabarets and concerts featuring contemporary opera and Russian art song.

Her first off Broadway debut came in her role of Rhonda in David Hare's The Secret Rapture at The Sanford Meisner Theatre. In 2011, she was cast as Fanny Brice in Styne and Merrill's Funny Girl. Other credits include Hattie in Kiss Me, Kate with the Janiec Opera Company at Brevard Music Center, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro with the Opera Theatre of Lucca.

In 2011, Sineath joined Dicapo Opera, where she was cast in The Most Happy Fella, and received high praise from The New York Times and other media sources. For the 2012-2013 season, she performed the following roles at Dicapo Opera:

She also preformed the operatic role of Giannetta in the upcoming Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore and sang the role of Brigitta in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Iolanta with Opera Slavica in New York City where she was also featured in their Russian Opera Scenes Concert. Sineath also appeared in the chorus of Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto and Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly with The National Lyric Opera.

She was cast in Oscar nominee James Spione's 2014 film, Silenced, where she portrayed Jesselyn Radack, an ethics advisor for the US Department of Justice who exposed illegal FBI practices during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.

In May 2014, she performed with the cast of Broadway's Kinky Boots in a cabaret at 54 Below benefiting BC/EFA.

Upcoming engagements include a Master Class and solo recital at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia in October.

Media attention

David Rice of The Classical Source praised Sineath's performance in Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella, stating that her lyric soprano was "lovely" and that she managed to “credibly portray(sic) Rosabella's naivete, honesty and sincerity.” Victor Wheeler, also of The Classical Source, had earlier described her portrayal of Lauretta in O mio babbino caro in Gianni Schicchi as "superb".

Steve Row of CVNC said of Sineath's performance in Marvin and Pearle's 2003 adaption of Tintypes that, "she(sic) has a lyric soprano of uncommon beauty, but she’s equally adept at putting over a blazing vaudeville turn like the pre-feminist comic anthem 'Fifty-Fifty.'"

On her performance as Rhonda in David Hare's The Secret Rapture, Harry Forbes of Backstage said that "Sineath as Rhonda spiced up the stage as the would-be seductress of Isobel’s boyfriend and business partner, Irwin." Metropolis reviewed Sineath’s performance as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl as a "...performer with whom to be reckoned..."