This season, bass-baritone Christian Van Horn appears as Colline in La Bohème at the Los Angeles Opera, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Virginia Opera, and Timur in Turandot at the Ft. Worth Opera.  This past summer he returned to the Opera Theater of Saint Louis for Karenin in Anna Karenin, and made his debuts at the Santa Fe Opera debut in Tan Dun's opera, Tea: A Mirror of the Soul, and at Carnegie Hall in a concert with the Emerson String Quartet as part of their Perspective Series. Last season he made his debuts at the Arizona Opera as the title role in Le nozze di Figaro and at Opera Pacific as Zuniga in Carmen, and returned to the Florida Grand Opera to create the role of Karenin in the world premiere of the piece ... read full bio

This season, bass-baritone Christian Van Horn appears as Colline in La Bohème at the Los Angeles Opera, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Virginia Opera, and Timur in Turandot at the Ft. Worth Opera.  This past summer he returned to the Opera Theater of Saint Louis for Karenin in Anna Karenin, and made his debuts at the Santa Fe Opera debut in Tan Dun's opera, Tea: A Mirror of the Soul, and at Carnegie Hall in a concert with the Emerson String Quartet as part of their Perspective Series. Last season he made his debuts at the Arizona Opera as the title role in Le nozze di Figaro and at Opera Pacific as Zuniga in Carmen, and returned to the Florida Grand Opera to create the role of Karenin in the world premiere of the piece.

A recent graduate of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists, Mr. Van Horn appeared in the Lyric Opera of Chicago's productions of Carmen, Der Rosenkavalier, and Aida. Other recent opera engagements have included Colline in La Bohème at the Baltimore Opera, Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro at the Chicago Opera Theatre, Masetto in Don Giovanni and the Duke of Verona in Romeo et Juliette at the Florida Grand Opera, and  Premiere Fossoyeur in Hamlet, Angelotti in Tosca and the Immigration Officer in the American premiere of Jonathan Dove's Flight at the Opera Theater of Saint Louis. A graduate of Yale University, where he received his Masters degree in music, his many roles there included Mephistopheles in Faust, Figaro, and Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte.

Mr. Van Horn's recent concert engagements have included appearances with the Chicago Symphony is Tippet's Child of Our Time, under the baton of Sir Andrew Davis; Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the Pacific Symphony, and the opening concerts of the Bard Music Festival.  Other past engagements have included a selection of Bach Cantatas with the Seattle Symphony and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Yale Philharmonia.

One of the winners of the 2003 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a 2003 Sarah Tucker Study Grant, Mr. Van Horn has also received many other awards including first place at the 2002 MacAllister Competition Collegiate Division, prize winner in the 2002 Liederkranz Foundation Vocal Competition, and the Richman Award from Opera Theatre of St. Louis.