Christopher Maltman

Winner of the Lieder Prize at the 1997 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, Christopher Maltman studied singing at the Royal Academy of Music.

He recently made an acclaimed debut at the Salzburg Festival in the title role of ‘Don Giovanni’.  He is a regular guest at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden where his roles have included Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Marcello (La bohème) and Ramiro (L’heure espagnole). His roles at Glyndebourne have included Papageno and Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) and in Munich he has sung Tarquinius (The Rape of Lucretia), Guglielmo, Marcello and Albert (Werther). Other appearances include Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) and Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas) in Vienna; Oreste (Iphigénie en Tauride) at the Hamburg State Opera and Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin. An acclaimed Billy Budd, he has sung the role at WNO, Teatro Regio in Turin, Seattle and in Munich. 

In the U.S. he has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera as Papageno, Silvio (I Pagliacci) and Harlekin (Ariadne auf Naxos); in San Francisco as Papageno; in Seattle as Guglielmo and in San Diego as Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia).

His future engagements include returns to Covent Garden, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Salzburg Festival and his debuts at the Paris Opera and at the Vienna State Opera.

He appears regularly in concert with the world’s great orchestras and conductors and, in recital, he has appeared at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Salzburg Mozarteum, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Philharmonie in Cologne, in New York at both Carnegie Hall and at the Lincoln Center, and at the Aldeburgh, Edinburgh and Cheltenham Festivals.  He is a regular guest at the Wigmore Hall and at the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade Festival.