English baritone Christopher Maltman completed a degree in biochemistry at the University of Warwick before studying singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
As Mozart’s Don Giovanni he has been acclaimed all over the world, most notably in London, Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Amsterdam, Toulouse, Beijing and Chicago, at the San Sebastián, Edinburgh and Salzburg Festivals and at New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival. He is increasingly in demand in Verdi roles and has sung Rodrigo (Don Carlo), Simon Boccanegra, Ford (Falstaff), Count di Luna (Il trovatore), Guy de Montfort (Les Vêpres siciliennes) and, more recently, Don Carlo (La forza del destino) and Rigoletto to wide critical acclaim.
A favourite at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Christopher Maltman also appears regularly at the Munich, Vienna and Berlin State Operas as well as the Salzburg Festival, where he was heard most recently in the title role in Enescu’s Œdipe in 2019. Other engagements have taken him to the Paris Opéra, the Frankfurt Opera, the Zurich Opera, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam and the Teatro Regio in Turin. In the United States he frequently appears at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the San Francisco Opera and in Seattle, San Diego and Los Angeles.
Highlights of Christopher Maltman’s career as a concert artist have included appearances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under James Conlon at the Ravinia Festival, with the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst, with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Christoph von Dohnányi, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under John Adams, with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Roger Norrington, with the London Symphony Orchestra under Simon Rattle, Tadaaki Otaka, Valery Gergiev and Colin Davis, with the Concentus Musicus of Vienna under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala under Daniel Harding, with the Dresden Staatskapelle under John Eliot Gardiner, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under James Conlon and Colin Davis, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen and with the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur.
Christopher Maltman won the Song Prize at the 1997 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and continues to delight his audiences with his sensitive and engaging song performances, many of which are documented in acclaimed recordings. His vast and varied discography ranges from Purcell to Thomas Adès and includes a live Grammy Award-winning recording of John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles from the Los Angeles Opera.
