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Christian Sanders has been hailed as a "...voice whose color belies his age. Someone to watch!" (Bill Eadie, SanDiego.com). His operatic repertoire encompasses Tom Rakewell in The Rake's Progress, the title character in Albert Herring, Fenton in Falstaff, Laurie in Little Women, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, and Prince Charmant in Cendrillon, as well as a broad range of modern opera and work by living composers.

Christian's busy 2022-2023 brought several significant engagements: Dorvil in Rossini's La Scala di Seta, reprising his highly acclaimed Tobias Ragg in Sweeney Todd with Austin Opera, Beppe in Pagliacci with the Sacramento Philharmonic, Loge in Das Rheingold with Dayton Opera, and returning to the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Little Bat in Susannah by Carlisle Floyd.

Christian joined the Young Artist Program at The Glimmerglass Festival for the 2018 season singing Jonathan Dale in the Pulitzer prize-winning opera Silent Night. He also stepped in as Tony in West Side Story under the baton of Maestro David Charles Abell. Christian rejoined The Glimmerglass Festival in 2019 to sing Bégearss in The Ghosts of Versailles by Corigliano and sang the same role in November 2019 with Château de Versailles Spectacles in France.

On the concert stage, Christian has been the tenor soloist in Handel's Messiah, Bach's Magnificat, Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, Mendelssohn's Elijah, and Bruckner's Te Deum with the Point Loma Choral Union.

Christian was a finalist in the Rocky Mountain Region of the Metropolitan National Council Auditions in 2012. He received his Master of Music degree in Operatic Performance from Rice University on the full-tuition Edward J. and Frances Bing Memorial Scholarship. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Magna Cum Laude in Music with a minor in Cell and Molecular Biology from Point Loma Nazarene University.