Christopher Maltman

Grammy Award winner Christopher Maltman is one of the most sought-after dramatic baritones of our time and has performed at the Salzburg Festival, the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, the Vienna, Bavarian and Berlin State Operas, the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Milan, and at many other leading opera houses and festivals. While he initially made a name for himself as a Mozart specialist — above all as Don Giovanni — he has more recently enjoyed great success in roles such as Iago (Otello), Wotan (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Hans Sachs (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Jokanaan (Salome), Scarpia (Tosca) and the title role in Enescu’s Œdipe.

Christopher Maltman begins the 2026/27 season as Simone in Vasily Barkhatov’s new production of Zemlinsky’s Eine florentinische Tragödie in Vienna before returning to the Paris Opéra for Calixto Bieito’s full Ring cycle, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado. He makes his debut as Jack Rance in a new production by Richard Jones of La fanciulla del West at the Met, sings Wotan in Die Walküre as part of the Salzburg Easter Festival’s new Ring cycle with Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic and returns to Covent Garden as Scarpia. On the concert platform, he stars with Lise Davidsen in a Wagner concert at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia and makes his role debut as Duke Bluebeard (Bluebeard’s Castle) at the Hungarian State Opera. He also performs recitals at Leeds Song, the Library of Congress in Washington and at the Litomyšl Festival.

In the 2025/26 season Christopher Maltman made role debuts in the title role of Der fliegende Holländer in guest performances by the Bavarian State Opera in Shanghai and as the Wanderer in Barrie Kosky’s new production of Siegfried at Covent Garden. Other season highlights included Don Pizarro in a new production of Fidelio, Scarpia and Don Alfonso in Vienna, Scarpia in Berlin and further performances as Wagner’s Dutchman at the Tyrolean Festival Erl and in concert performances with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. In concert he appeared in Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw under Riccardo Chailly at La Scala, Milan, and in Elgar‘s The Dream of Gerontius with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra.

Other recent opera engagements have included his role debuts as Hans Sachs in Berlin and as Jupiter (Die Liebe der Danae) in Munich, Wotan (Das Rheingold and Die Walküre) and Leporello (Don Giovanni) at Covent Garden, Jokanaan in Hamburg, Sharpless (Madama Butterfly) at the Paris Opéra, Escamillo (Carmen), Don Alfonso, Leporello and Mandryka (Arabella) in Vienna, Scarpia and Rigoletto in Berlin, Iago in Munich, Count Luna (Il trovatore) in Washington, Amfortas (Parsifal) in Geneva, Ford (Falstaff) at the Met and Wotan (Die Walküre) in Naples.

In concert Christopher Maltman has appeared in a wide-ranging repertory with orchestras such as the Philharmonia Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London Symphony Orchestra, Concentus Musicus Wien, the Munich Philharmonic, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Orchestre de Paris, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also worked with numerous renowned conductors, including James Conlon, Colin Davis, Christoph von Dohnányi, John Eliot Gardiner, Valery Gergiev, Daniel Harding, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Tadaaki Otaka, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Franz Welser-Möst.