Christopher Robertson

Christopher Robertson has enjoyed a successful and highly diverse international career singing a wide range of repertoire on many of the world’s most distinguished stages.

He has sung leading operatic roles at Teatro alla Scala (making his debut in that theater in the inauguration of the 2002 season), Royal Opera Covent Garden, Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Unter den Linden, Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Teatro Real, Teatro Liceu, Teatro Maestranza, Palau de las Artes, Royal Opera Copenhagen, New National Theater Tokyo, National Opera Poland, English National Opera, Wexford Festival, Flanders Opera, Komische Oper, Oper Leipzig, Frankfurt, Rome, Torino, Genova, Napoli, Palermo, Catania, Salerno, Bilbao, Malaga, Oviedo, La Coruña, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Israel, Athens, Santiago, Chile, Rio de Janeiro, New York City Opera, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Montreal and Vancouver.

As a concert singer and recitalist he has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Het Concertgebouw, BBC Symphony, BR Orchester und Chor, NDR Orchester, Czech National Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Sinfonica della RAI, Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw, Festival de Música Sacra in Cuenca, Sinfónica de Bilbao, Orquesta de Galicia, Orquesta del Principado de Asturias, Sinfónica de Oviedo, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Stavanger Symphony, Darmstadt Staatstheater, Aspen Music Festival, Minnesota Orchestra and American Symphony Orchestra, as well as in frequent concerts and recitals throughout the Americas and Europe.

He has collaborated with many prestigious conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, James Levine, Charles Mackerras, Yuri Temirkanov, Jesús López Cobos, Christoph Eschenbach, Kent Nagano, James Conlon, Charles Dutoit, Michel Plasson, Ivor Bolton, Antonio Pappano, Jeffrey Tate, Richard Bonynge, Leonard Slatkin, David Zinman, Neeme Järvi, Donald Runnicles, Daniel Oren, Anton Guadagno, Julius Rudel, Eiji Oue, Juanjo Mena, Marco Armiliato, Josep Pons, John Fiore, Nicola Luisotti and Gary Bertini.

He has participated in productions by stage directors such as Franco Zeffirelli, Emilio Sagi, Robert Carsen, Yannis Kokkos, Calixto Bieito, Davide Livermore, Andreas Homoki, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Jonathan Miller, John Copley, John Cox, Elijah Moshinsky, Achim Freyer, Lotfi Mansouri, Thaddeus Strassberger, Willy Decker, Otto Schenk, Harry Kupfer, Doucet and Barbe, Leiser and Caurier, Barrie Kosky, Francesca Zambello and Peter Mussbach.

Throughout his extensive career he has performed alongside many of the most important and influential singers in history. He has performed more than eighty leading roles, singing in ten different languages, with repertoire spanning from the Baroque period to the contemporary, and from lyric to heroic roles. Robertson also has an extensive concert and recital repertoire that includes works by many of the greatest composers for the concert stage, from J. S. Bach and his contemporaries to Britten and more contemporary works.

Robertson performs the role of Le Marquis de la Force in the recording from Teatro alla Scala of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites under the direction of Riccardo Muti. He is featured as Altair in the Telarc recording of Richard Strauss’s Die ägyptische Helena with the American Symphony Orchestra. He sings King Henry IV in the recent PENTATONE recording of Gordon Getty’s opera Plump Jack, with Ulf Schirmer conducting the BR Orchester und Chor, as well as Riccardo in the Nuova Era recording of I puritani by Bellini conducted by Richard Bonynge.

Recently Robertson has focused on performing mature character roles of all styles as well as concert and recital performances. He has performed the title role of Falstaff, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Simone in Gianni Schicchi, Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte, Duc de Verona in Roméo et Juliette, Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Mass in C major and Winterreise, and will appear as the Mayor in Jenůfa and in various concerts.

He offers private technical and interpretive coaching as well as masterclasses in role preparation and general performance. In 2021–2022 he was an invited professor at the Escuela Superior de Canto in Madrid, and in 2023 he presented masterclasses at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Joaquín Rodrigo in Valencia. In 2024 he presented masterclasses at the Conservatorio Superior of País Vasco, Musikene and the Conservatorio Superior de Salamanca. In 2026 he will appear in masterclasses at the Vocal Academy Musicalta in Alsace, and has been invited to teach at the Weimar Opera Academy.

He has presented masterclasses at Oberlin Conservatory and Peabody Conservatory, and has been Artist in Residence at the Opera Studio at the University of Alcalá de Henares in Madrid.

Robertson is a graduate of Oberlin College, where he studied with Richard Miller. He was a member of the Merola Young Artist Program at San Francisco Opera as well as the Wolf Trap Opera Program in Washington, D.C. He is a recipient of a Career Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation. He is a member of the Sociedad La Bilbaína, an academician of the Academy of Performing Arts of Spain, and a member of the Spanish Union of Lyric Artists. He is a Spanish citizen and resides between Madrid and Bilbao.

Since the 2025–2026 academic year, he has been Professor of Lyric Scene of the Alfredo Kraus–Fundación Ramón Areces Voice Chair at the Reina Sofía School of Music, where he has already been a guest professor on several occasions since 2023.