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Christopher Maltman
Baritone
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| Type: | Baritone |
| Genre: | Opera |
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General | | Biography: | Winner of the Lieder Prize at the 1997 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, Christopher Maltman read biochemistry at Warwick University and studied singing at the Royal Academy of Music.
His concert engagements have included the Philharmonia Orchestra with von Dohnanyi, BBC Symphony Orchestra with John Adams, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Sir Roger Norrington, London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle and Otaka, Concentus Musicus Vienna with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Dresden Staatskapelle with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Boston Symphony Orchestra with James Conlon, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra with Kurt Masur.
He recently made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera, New York as Harlekin (Ariadne auf Naxos). At the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, he created the role of Sebastian in the world premiere of Thomas Adès’ ‘The Tempest’ and has also sung Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Ramiro (L’heure espagnole), Malatesta (Don Pasquale) and Nardo (La finta giardiniera). His roles at the Glyndebourne Festival include Ned Keene (Peter Grimes), Sid (Albert Herring), Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Achilla (Giulio Cesare) and his role debut as Papageno (Die Zauberflöte). At the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, he has sung Tarquinius (The Rape of Lucretia), Guglielmo, Marcello (La bohème) and Albert (Werther). An acclaimed Billy Budd, he has sung the role at Welsh National Opera, Teatro Regio in Turin, Seattle and in Munich. Other opera appearances include Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin and in San Diego; Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas) in Vienna; Tarquinius at the Aldeburgh Festival and at English National Opera; Laurent (Therese Raquin) at San Diego Opera; Guglielmo at English National Opera and in Seattle. Future engagements include Count Almaviva and Tarquinius in Vienna and Papageno at Covent Garden and in San Francisco.
In recital he has appeared at the Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Brighton, Bath, Buxton, Lichfield, City of London, Harrogate, Arundel and Cheltenham Festivals, at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Gulbenkian in Lisbon, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Philharmonie in Köln and in New York at both Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center. He is a regular guest at the Wigmore Hall and the Schwartzenberg Schubertiade Festival.
His extensive discography includes songs by Debussy, Faure, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann’s ‘Dichterliebe’ and ‘Liederkreis’ (Op.24).
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