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date = "2015-04-07T14:11:00+01:00"
discipline = "Bass-baritone"
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title = "Christian van Horn"
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This season, bass-baritone Christian Van Horn appeared in the Lyric Opera of Chicago special concert of excerpts from Atilla and returned to the Paris Opera as Mephistopheles in _Faust_. This season he makes his role debut as the title role in _Don Giovanni_ at the Paris Opera, and returns to the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Banquo in _Macbeth_, and to the Metropolitan Opera as the title role in _Le Nozze di Figaro_ and as Nick Shadow in _The Rake's Progress_. He also stars in the Washington National Opera's _Come Home: A Celebration of Return_, a special concert celebrating the opera company's return to the Kennedy Center following it closure due to the pandemic.

Mr. Van Horn has appeared in many of the great opera houses of the world including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Paris Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Rome Opera, Stuttgart Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève, and Netherlands Opera, and at the Salzburg and Munich festivals. His operatic roles include the title roles in _Mefistofele_ and _Le nozze di Figaro_, Mephistopheles in _Faust_, Claggart in _Billy Budd_, the Four Villains in _Les Contes d'Hoffmann_, Escamillo in _Carmen_, Enrico in _Anna Bolena_, Colline in _La bohème_, Alidoro in _La Cenerentola_, Timur in _Turandot_, Banquo in _Macbeth_, Narbal in _Les Troyens_, Zoroastro in _Orlando_, Oroveso in _Norma_, Zaccaria in _Nabucco_, Publio in _La Clemenza di Tito_, Gessler in _Guillaume Tell_, and Frère Laurent in _Roméo et Juliette_. He also appeared in the world premieres of Tan Dun's _Tea: A Mirror of the Soul_ at the Santa Fe Opera and Marco Tutino's _Two Women_ at the San Francisco Opera, and in the American premiere of Thomas Adés' _The Exterminating Angel_ at the Metropolitan Opera.

In concert, Mr. Van Horn recently made his debut at the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as Creon in _Oedipus Rex_. He has also appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra (in Cleveland and at Carnegie Hall), New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival Easter Festival, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and at the Mostly Mozart Festival, Bard Music Festival, and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

Mr. Van Horn recorded the title role of _Le Nozze di Figaro_ for SONY Classical. He also appeared in the Metropolitan Opera's HD broadcasts of _Falstaff_ and _The Exterminating Angel_. 

Mr. Van Horn is the 2018 Winner of the Richard Tucker Award and a 2003 winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He received his Master's degree in music from Yale University and is a graduate of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.