Christian Van Horn

This season, bass-baritone Christian Van ,Horn returns to the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Silva in Ernani, and to the Metropolitan Opera as Oroveso in Norma, Ramfis in Aida, and Colline in La bohéme.

Mr. Van Horn has appeared ,in many of the great opera houses of the world including the Metropolitan ,Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Paris Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Rome Opera, Stuttgart Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève, and Netherlands Opera, and at the Salzburg and Munich festivals. His operatic roles include the title roles in Don Giovani, Mefistofele and Le nozze di Figaro, Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress, Mephistopheles in Faust, Claggart in Billy Budd, the Four Villains in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Escamillo in Carmen, Enrico in Anna Bolena, Colline in La bohème, Alidoro in La Cenerentola, Timur in Turandot, Banquo in Macbeth, Narbal in Les Troyens, Oroveso in Norma, Zaccaria in Nabucco, Gessler in Guillaume Tell, and Frère Laurent in Roméo et Juliette. He also appeared in the world premieres of Tan Dun’s Tea: A Mirror of the Soul at the Santa Fe Opera and Marco Tutino's Two Women at the San Francisco Opera, and in the American premiere of Thomas Adés’ The Exterminating Angel at the Metropolitan Opera.

In concert, Mr. Van Horn has aappeared with the Cleveland Orchestra (in Cleveland and at Carnegie Hall), New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic ,at the Salzburg Festival Easter Festival, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, ,and at the Mostly Mozart Festival, Bard Music Festival, and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

Mr. Van Horn recorded the title role of Le Nozze di Figaro for SONY Classical. He also appeared in the Metropolitan Opera's HD broadcasts of Falstaff and The Exterminating Angel.

Mr. Van Horn is ,the 2018 Winner of the Richard Tucker Award and a 2003 winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He received his Master’s degree in music from Yale University and is a graduate of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.