This season, bass-baritone Christian Van Horn returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor and Crespel in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, the San Francisco Opera as Timur in Turandot, and to the Salzburg Easter Festival as Zuniga in Carmen. He also made his debuts at the Canadian Opera Company as Angelotti in Tosca and the Grand Théâtre de Genève as Banquo in Macbeth, and appeared in concert with the Berlin Philharmonic. This summer her returns to the Salzburg Festival for Carmen and appears in the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and next season he returns to the San Francisco Opera as the Four Villains in Les Contes d’Hoffmann and to the Dallas Opera as Timur in Turandot.

Other recent opera engagements have included his debuts at the San Francisco Opera as the King in Aida, the Portland Opera as Timur, the Boston Lyric Opera as Claudio in Agrippina, the Staatstheater Stuttgart as the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro, the Salzburg Festival as the Duke of Verona in Romeo et Juliette, and the Bayerische Staatsoper as Colline; Oroveso in Norma and the Bonze in Madama Butterfly at the Bayerische Staatsoper; performances of Tosca, Don Carlo, and Tannhäuser at the Munich Festival; Colline and Tan Dun’s Tea: A Mirror of the Soul at the Santa Fe Opera, Colline at the Los Angeles Opera, Figaro at the Arizona Opera and Chicago Opera Theatre, Raimondo at the Virginia Opera, Timur at the Ft. Worth Opera, Karenin in Anna Karenin (world premiere) and Masetto in Don Giovanni at the Florida Grand Opera; and  Karenin, Angelotti, and the Immigration Officer in the American premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Flight at the Opera Theater of Saint Louis. A graduate of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists, Mr. Van Horn has also appeared in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s productions of La Damnation de Faust, The Pearl Fishers, Carmen, Der Rosenkavalier, and Aida ... read full bio