As a concert singer and recitalist He has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Het Concertgebouw, BBC Symphony, BR Orchester und Chor, NDR Orchester, Czech National Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Sinfonica della RAI, Beethoven Easter Festival, Warsaw, Festival de Musica Sacra, Cuenca, Sinfonica de Bilbao, Orquesta de Galicia, Orquesta de la Principada de Asturias, Sinfónica de Oviedo, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Stavanger Symphony, Darmstadt Staatsorchester, Aspen Music Festival, Minnesota Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra etc. as well as frequent concerts and recitals throughout the Americas and Europe.
He has collaborated with many prestigious conductors such as, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, James Levine, Charles Mackerras, Yuri Temirkanov, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Christoph Eschenbach, Kent Nagano, James Conlon, Charles Dutoit, Michel Plasson, Ivor Bolton, Antonio Pappano, Jeffrey Tate, Richard Bonynge, Leonard Slatkin, David Zinman, Neeme Jarvi, Donald Runnicles, Daniel Oren, Anton Guadagno, Julius Rudel, Eiji Oue, Juanjo Mena, Marco Armiliato, Josep Pons, John Fiore, Nicola Luisotti, Gary Bertini etc. He has participated in productions by stage directors such as Franco Zeffirelli, Emilio Sagi, Robert Carson, Yannis Kokkos, Calixto Bieito, Davide Livermore, Andreas Homoki, Pier Luigi Pizzi,
Jonathan Miller, John Coplay, John Cox, Elijah Moshinsky, Achim Freyer, Lotfi Mansouri, Thaddeus Strassberger, Willy Decker, Otto Schenk, Harry Kupfer, Doucet/Barbe, Leiser/Chaurier, Barry Kovsky, Francesca Zambella, Peter Mussbach.
Throughout his extensive career he has performed alongside many of the most important and influential singers in history . He has performed more than seventy leading roles, singing in ten different languages, his ever growing repertoire spanning from the Baroque period to the Contemporary, from lyric to heroic. Robertson also has an extensive concert and recital repertoire that includes many of the greatest compositions written for the concert stage from J.S. Bach and his contemporaries to Britten and later ,modern works. Robertson performs the role of Le Marquis de la Force in the recording from Teatro alla Scala of Poulenc’s Les Dialogues de las Carmélites under the direction of Riccardo Muti. He is featured as Althair in the Telarc recording of Richard Strauss’ Die Aegyptische Helena with the American Symphony Orchestra. He sings King Henry IV in the recent Pentatone recording of Gordon Getty’s opera Plump Jack. Ulf Schirmer conducts the BR Orchester und Chor, as well as Ricciardo in the Nuova Era recording of I Puritani by Bellini conducted by Richard Bonynge.
Recently Robertson has focused on performing mature character roles of all styles as well as concert and recital performances. He has performed the title role of Falstaff, Don Alfonso (Cosí fan Tutte), Simone (Gianni Schicchi), Sprecher (Die Zauberflöte), Duc de Verona (Roméo et Juliette), Messiah, Mozart Requiem, Beethoven Mass in C Major, Winterreise, and has future appearances as Benoît/Alcindoro (La Bohéme), Starek (Jenufa) Magnificat (Bach), Messiah, with other performance commitments to be confirmed.
Christopher Robertson is an alumnus of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, The Western Opera Theater as well as the Wolf Trap Young Artist Program. He was awarded a Career Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation. He offers private technical and interpretive coaching as well as masterclasses in role preparation and general performance. In 2023 he participated as an invited guest in panel at the Escuela Superior Reina Sofía in Madrid. In 2021, 2022 he was invited professor at the Escuela Superior de Canto in Madrid and in 2023 he appeared in masterclasses at the Conservatorio Superior de Musica “Joaquin Rodriguez” in Valencia. In 2024 he has appeared in Masterclasses at the Conservatorio Superior of País Vasco, Musikene and the conservatorio superior De salamanca. He will also be appearing in masterclasses at the Vocal Academy in Saluzzo, Italy. He has presented masterclasses at Oberlin Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory as well as been an invited artist at the Opera Studio at the University of Alcalá Henares in Madrid. Robertson is a graduate from Oberlin College where he studied with Richard Miller. He is a Spanish Citizen and resides between Madrid and Bilbao.