Christine Sch�fer is a German soprano. Sch�fer was born in Frankfurt. She studied from 1984 until 1991 at the Hochschule der K�nste in Berlin, where her teachers were Ingrid Figur, Aribert Reimann and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. She also took masterclasses with Arleen Aug�r and Sena Jurinac. After finishing her studies in 1992, Sch�fer began singing at the opera house in Innsbruck. The next year she made her debut in the United States, singing Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier in San Francisco. In 1995, she performed to great acclaim during the Salzburger Festspiele as Lulu in Alban Berg's opera of that name, a part she would later sing at The Met and at Glyndebourne. Other notable opera roles were Alcina at the Drottningholm Palace Theatre, Donna Anna in a production of Don Giovanni in the Palais Garnier, directed by Michael Haneke and Gilda in a 2000 BBC production of Rigoletto at Covent Garden. Her repertoire contains several baroque operas, Bach cantatas, and many of the great Mozart roles, such as Konstanze, Cherubino, Pamina and Servilia. But Sch�fer also sings modern pieces like Pierrot Lunaire and Pli selon pli, both of which she recorded with Pierre Boulez conducting. 

May 3rd, 1965 in Frankfurt (Age 59)