Christian Van Horn
This season, bass-baritone Christian van Horn makes his debuts at the Arizona Opera as the title role in Le nozze di Figaro and at Opera Pacific as Zuniga in Carmen. He also returns to the Florida Grand Opera as Karenin in the world premiere of Anna Karenina.
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 Boh�me at the Baltimore Opera, Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro at the Chicago Opera Theatre, Masetto in Don Giovanni and the Duke of Venice 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 Zauberfl�te.
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's 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.
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