Photo of Christine Maxted
Christine Maxted is the featured soprano soloist for Reveries, the Manassas Symphony's Annual Family Concert on December 14, 2024. She is performing a setting of the classic bedtime story Goodnight Moon, composed by American Eric Whitacre.
Christine Maxted serves as the theatre teacher at Westfield High School and Stone Middle School for Fairfax County Public Schools. She holds her MA in Theatre Education and BM in Musical Theatre from the Catholic University of America. Performance venues have included Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap for the Performing Arts, Harman Center, NextStop Theatre, Workhouse Arts Center, Little Theatre of Alexandria, Upper Room Theatre, Prince William Little Theatre, and Reston Community Players. Christine has been a featured soloist for the Manassas Chorale, Manassas Symphony Orchestra, 2019 Prince William All County Choir Concert, and ETWN televised masses and concerts.
Christine is known to MSO audiences for her stunning portrayal of Mother Abbess in the Summer 2022 collaborative MSO-PWLT production of The Sound of Music. Highlights of her singing career have included singing for Junípero Serra’s Canonization Mass celebrated by Pope Francis and participating in the PBS documentary, The Defiant Requiem where she performed at international venues in Prague and Budapest. She recently joined the cast of the Star Trek fan film series Farragut Forward as Vulcan Science Officer Valerik. Although Christine loves to perform, she experiences immense joy bringing others to the stage as well.