The bass-baritone Christopher Humbert Jr. was born in Akron, Ohio. Since 2023 he has been a member of the Ryan Opera Center of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where he most recently appeared in productions of Rigoletto, Fidelio and Jeanine Tesori’s Blue. Guest engagements have included Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Seagle Festival, Brander (La Damnation de Faust) with the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra and the bass solo in Verdi’s Requiem with the Erie Philharmonic. He graduated from the Young Artist Program of the Palm Beach Opera, where he sang roles including Zuniga (Carmen) and Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas). In 2020 he made his solo debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall as a soloist in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Dona nobis pacem.
Christopher Humbert Jr. studied at the Berklee College of Music, where he sang the role of Reverend Olin Blitch in a student production of Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah. In 2023 he received the Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation and was among the winners of the Metropolitan Opera’s Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition (St Louis District).
