La présence et l'abattage de Christine Buffle force le respect, tant dans le moments nostalgiques ("Wunderbar", "So in Love") que dans les moments comiques ("We open in Venice", " I hate men", "Kiss me Kate"). Elle n'a peur de rien, ni des costumes ridicules, ni de la tarte à la crème, ni de jouer la virago ... elle ose tout!
Kiss me, Kate
Resmusica 2016
Christine Buffle (Lilli Vanessi/Katharine) est une parfaite mégère qui hurle, cogne et trépigne avec une évidente jubilation. Un rôle en or.
Kiss me, Kate
nouvel observateur 2016
Christine Buffle m'a véritablement enchanté dans les rôles de Kate et Lilli, voix exceptionnelle tirant même parfois la comédie musicale vers l'opéra et une vraie "mégère" qui vitupère joyeusement.
Kiss me, Kate
Reg'Arts 2016
Chatelet regular Christine Buffle, who plays Lilli, is one of director Lee Blakeley's go-to performers - she was in "Sunday in the Park with George", "Into the Woods" and "The King and I" - but this Kate and her "I hate Men" ist the best we have heard from the Anglo-Swiss soprano.
Buffle also does "So in Love" quite wonderfully.
Kiss me, Kate
musical theatre review 2016
Le timbre élégiaque de la bouillonnante Christine Buffle, idéale en garce revancharde.
Kiss me, Kate
vincent pontet/hierautheatre.worldprss.com 2016
Christine Buffle fonce droit dans les colères de Lilli/Katherine.
Kiss me, Kate
Web theatre 2016
Lilli Vanessi, incarnée par la formidable Christine Buffle...
Kiss me, Kate
Artistikrezoa 2016
Christine Buffle is better than good as Lilli/Kate ... Her vitality, commitment, style and vocal splendour combine to produce a ravishing Lilli.
Kiss me, Kate
stephen collins/livetheatre.co,uk 2016
Doch muss man die hervorragende Christine Büffle hervorheben: In Ihrem Blick spiegeln sich zwei Charaktere wider, jener der fast hysterischen Kate und den der verliebten Lilli oder ganz einfach der einer Frau, die zwischen ihren Gefühlen hin und her gerissen ist.
Ausserdem bietet sie alle Register ihrer Stimme mit dem Wort "never" im Titelsong "Kiss me Kate".
Kiss me, Kate
Lëtzbuerger journal 2016
Daneben präsentierte Christine Buffle als schwedische Baronin von Gondremarck einen hohen in allen Lagen abgerundeten Sopran. Ihr verträumter Bericht vom Besuch der Pariser Oper war der Höhepunkt des Abends, wobei sie auch darstellerisch überzeugte.
Pariser Leben
deropernfreund.de 2015
Die Baronin, von Christine Büffle als Gast sehr überzeugend in ihrer Ambivalenz von Sehnsucht nach dem süßen Leben und der Erkenntnis der Realität gespielt und gesungen gehört zu den herausragenden Solisten.
Pariser Leben
Volksstimme.de 2015
Christine Buffle m'a séduite et emmenée avec elle, aussi parce qu'elle me rappelait Deborah Kerr.
The King and I
sweetvous.com
En tête de troupe, Christine Buffle est épatante en Anna Leonowens. Elle traine ses lourdes robes à crinoline à travers la scène et les actes, moqueuse, têtue. Pour une fois, le personnage principal, quoique pédagogue et maternelle, n'est pas un exemple de sérieux ou une figure de proue pour les personnages. Son franc parler, sa rousseur insolente mais prude, son Oxford English sont autant d'outils pour réussir le rôle comme Buffle le fait.
The King and I
La loge d’Aymeric 2014
Christine Buffle est parfaite de grâce malicieuse.
The King and I
20 minutes 2014
The women are particularly glorious, led by Christine Buffle as the Baker’s Wife, stunning in both stage presence and vocal intensity.
Into the Woods
Le Figaro 2014
Christine Buffle, seen last year in Sunday (in the park with George, ed.), is a terrific Baker’s Wife, thoroughly relishing being ravished by Cinderella’s Prince...
Into the Woods
musicaltheatrereview.com 2014
Christine Buffle's Leïla outshone everyone. With her strikingly beautiful and individual soprano voice, and in what is possibly her best role yet, this mesmerising and versatile singer masters the dramatic transformation from shy young woman turned priestess to passionate lover as brilliantly as she does the vocal demands of this complex role.
An amazing performance.
Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Der neue Merker 2013
As Leila, Christine Buffle sang with great ardour and drama, her voice soaring effortlessly to the highest heights, and her exquisite pianissimo sending shivers down every spine.
Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Stadtblatt 2013
With breathtaking vocal expressivity and enormous stage presence, Christine Buffle's priestess Leïla is a delight.
Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Krone 2013
A confident, cheeky Vixen, Christine Buffle mastered her role perfectly both vocally and dramatically.
Das schlaue Füchslein
Krone 2013
Christine Buffle is a delightful Vixen, full of charm, cunning and high spirits, with her freshly glowing soprano and demanding, precisely choreographed yet natural-looking movements.
Das schlaue Füchslein
Tiroler Tageszeitung 2013
Christine Buffle's Miss Wordsworth, a virtuoso performance ...
Albert Herring
Tiroler Tageszeitung 2012
Christine Buffle is utterly convincing as the energetic Alice Ford, giving the role brilliant personality both vocally and dramatically.
Falstaff
Krone 2012
Christine Buffle's vocally sparkling, vivacious and seductive Alice....
Falstaff
Tiroler Tageszeitung 2012
The hesitant, tormented and idealistic Blanche is perfectly portrayed by Christine Buffle, utterly believable in every nuance and exquisitely sung, in ideal balance between lyricism and drama.
Dialogues des Carmélites
Tiroler Tageszeitung 2011
In her mysterious reserve, Christine Buffle is an ideal Blanche, dramatically intense and vocally magnificent, young enough to rebel yet mature enough to fail.
Dialogues des Carmélites
Die Furche 2011
As Marie, Christine Buffle impressed with her bright soprano, a voice expressive in every register, and with a secure top that shone effortlessly through the ensembles. Her big third act aria and the duet that follows it were thus the vocal highlights of the evening.
Die verkaufte Braut
Opernglas 04/11
Christine Buffle plays Marie as a strong, young woman of great energy and feeling, sings wonderfully, acts with great intensity, reaches great dramatic peaks and has exceptionally clear diction throughout.
Die verkaufte Braut
TirolerTageszeitung 2011
The cast is a fine one, not least Robert Holl's authoritative Prospero and Christine Buffle's wide-eyed Miranda.
Der Sturm (F.Martin)
Gramophone 2011
Christine Buffle is outstanding as the unstable and possessive governess.
The Turn of the Screw
Kronen Zeitung 2008
Torn between stylistic and emotional terror, Christine Buffle is a sublime governess.
The Turn of the Screw
TirolerTageszeitung 2008
Above all Christine Buffle shines as the governess with great dramatic and vocal intensity.
The Turn of the Screw
Wiener Zeitung 2008
Christine Buffle has the most deadly development of all to portray: she arrives as an ambitious Mary Poppins-type nanny and is progressively corrupted by her inner turmoil between the sensual and the transcendental.
The Turn of the Screw
Der Standard 2008
Christine Buffle’s Juliette is both searingly passionate and profoundly moving.
Roméo et Juliette
Tiroler Woche 2008
Christine Buffle, a marvellous Violetta in “La Traviata”, is also Mélisande: fragile, otherworldly, ethereal, almost like the spiritual embodiment of a woman who is not of this world.Her voice masters every aspect (including the Sprechgesang) of this difficult role; a wonderfully gripping portrayal.
Pelléas et Mélisande
Kurier 2007
Soprano Christine Buffle slips into the role of Mélisande with great stagecraft, making her a wonderful combination of mystery and manipulation; purity and erotic intensity. Singing in their French mother tongue, with the lyrical yearning of the Sprechgesang free of set arias, both Buffle and Soules sing without a trace of harshness or pressure.
Pelléas et Mélisande
TirolerTageszeitung 2007
Passionate entanglements exist between all the characters who never reveal their deepest secrets. Least of all Mélisande who, in Christine Buffle’s personification, equally embodies everything that each individual character, but also audience member, wishes or believes her to be. A brilliant performance.
Pelléas et Mélisande
Wiener Zeitung 2007
Christine Buffle is a Violetta of perfect presence, who displays not only the most perfect vocal expressiveness with her radiant soprano voice, but also impressive acting. On the first night of the so-called “second cast”, which is in fact first class casting (a rarity in opera houses everywhere), the audience cheered like they had at the premiere; especially for the prima donna Christine Buffle.
La Traviata
Kurier 2007
(Christine) Buffle lives out her Violetta like no other. Her every expression clearly interprets her character’s changeable past.
La Traviata
Tiroler Woche 2007
There were undercurrents from La Strada in Christine Buffle's Nedda, reduced to living a life of pathetically faked joviality. The soprano soared in her aria and blended sensually with the honeyed, lyric baritone of Gérard Kim, her Silvio.
I Pagliacci
Opera News 2008
It was an indulgently rich paen ... while Christine Buffle’s exultant soprano soared above.
F.Schmitt-Psaume 47 /BBC Symphony Wales, Cardiff
The Guardian 2008
Christine Buffle, an emotionally scarred, volatile Donna Anna, tore into her music with white-hot, volcanic intensity and a voice of Wagnerian heft but had no trouble articulating the tricky coloratura passages.
Don Giovanni
Opera News 2006
With her Donna Anna, Christine Buffle follows her success as Konstanze and surprises with refined Mozart singing.
Don Giovanni
Der neue Merker 2006
A fantastic Donna Anna from Christine Buffle.
Don Giovanni
Die Furche 2006
Christine Buffle has an important role to play in Donna Anna, which she fulils with great sensitivity and fire.
Don Giovanni
Tiroler Tageszeitung 2006
Chérubin’s great love, the dancer L’Ensoleillad was given a multi-faceted interpretation by Christine Buffle; a dramatic coloratura soprano with a noble and seductive timbre and amazing stage presence.
Chérubin
Opernwelt 2005
As the worldly L’Ensoleillad, Christine Buffle dominated the stage with exquisitely phrased piani.
Chérubin
Der neue Merker 2005
Christine Buffle made a glamorous L'Ensoleillad, scintillatingly manoeuvring through her florid vocal lines (she can dance, too.)
Chérubin
Financial Times 2005
Christine Buffle is a lively, sparkling Susanna.
Le Nozze di Figaro
Tirol.com 2005
Christine Buffle’s Susanna is enrapturing in vivacity and vocal brilliance.
Le Nozze di Figaro
Tiroler Tageszeitung 2005
Christine Buffle is luxury casting for Sylva Varescu, radiant of voice and appearance.
Die Czardasfürstin
Tiroler Tageszeitung 2004
Christine Buffle is a high-spirited, life-like and dramatically convincing Sylva Varescu; as always, her voice is equally persuasive.
Die Czardasfürstin
Kurier 2004
The production is made up of charming details and well constructed scenes, like the exquisite cat, startlingly life-like, played and sung by Christine Buffle, who was very well received in Niobé a few months ago.
Le Luthier de Venise (G.Dazzi)
Anaclase 2004
Christine Buffle is a beautiful, melodramatic Saffi with a glorious soprano voice.
Der Zigeunerbaron
Tiroler Tageszeitung 2003
Christine Buffle as Saffi is a feast for eyes and ears and portrays the fervour of a lover perfectly.
Der Zigeunerbaron
Kurier 2003
Christine Buffle, a new member of the Tiroler Landestheater, as Marzelline avoided the usual soubrette quaintness, and instead proved herself an outstanding soprano with a strong top.
Fidelio
Der neue Merker 2003
The title role was played with authority by Christine Buffle, gifted with a voice of many timbres, secure on the high notes, always expressive, even in the delicate ground between speaking and singing. A perfect incarnation of pain, thoroughly moving in the final lament, delivered with a white thread of voice, underlining the faint murmurs of the heart.
Niobé(P.Dusapin)
Il giornale della musica 2003
Alone on stage for forty minutes, Christine Buffle interpreted her Niobé with the unselfconsciousness or youth and the magic of talent.
Niobé(P.Dusapin)
Petites affiches lyonnaises 2003
The soloist Christine Buffle brought every facet of expression to the role, with unparalleled stage presence.
Niobé(P.Dusapin)
NZZ 2003
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