{"id":248274,"date":"2025-10-23T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/project\/christopher-robertson\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:18:45","slug":"christopher-robertson","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/project\/christopher-robertson\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Robertson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Christopher-Robertson-200x300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-248270 alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Christopher-Robertson-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Christopher-Robertson-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Christopher-Robertson.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christopher Robertson has enjoyed a successful and highly diverse international career singing a wide range of repetoire on many of the world\u2019s most distinguished stages. He has sung leading operatic roles at Teatro alla Scala, (making his debut in that theater in the inauguration of the 2002 season), Royal Opera Covent Garden, Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Unter den Linden, Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Washington Opera, Houston Gran Opera, Teatro Real, Teatro Liceo, Teatro Maestranza, Palau de las Artes, Royal Opera Copenhagen, New National Theater Tokyo, National Opera Poland, English National Opera, Wexford Festival, Flanders Opera, Komische Oper, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Rome, Torino, Genova, Napoli, Palermo, Catania, Salerno, Bilbao, Malaga, Oviedo, A Coru\u00f1a, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Tel Aviv, Athens, Santiago, Chile, Rio de Janeiro, NYC Opera, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Vancouver etc. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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 de Cuenca, Sinf\u00f3nica de Bilbao, Orquesta de Galicia, Orquesta de la Principado de Asturias, Sinf\u00f3nica de Oviedo, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Stavanger Symphony, Darmstadt Staatorchester, Aspen Music Festival, Minnesota Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, as well as frequent concerts and recitals throughout the Americas and Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He has collaborated with many prestigious conductors such as, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, James Levine, Charles Mackarras, Yuri Temirkanov, Jes\u00fas L\u00f3pez Cobos, Christoph Eschenbach, Kent Nagano, James Conlon, Charles Dutoit, Michel Plasson, Ivor Bolton, Antonio Pappano, Jeffery 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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 Freier, Lotfi Mansuori, Thaddeus Strassberger, Willy Decker, Otto Schenk, Harry Kupfer, Doucet\/Barbe, Leiser\/Chaurier, Yuval Sharon, Rosetta Cucchi, Barry Kovsky, Francesca Zambella, Peter Mussbach.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout his extensive career he has performed along side of many of the most important and influential singers in history. He has performed more than eighty leading roles, singing in ten different languages, the repetoire spanning from the Baroque to the Contemporary, from lyric to heroic. Robertson also has an extensive concert and recital repetoire. He has recorded with conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Richard Bonynge, Leonard Slatkin, Ulf Schirmer, Leon Boltstein etc.   <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently Robertson has focused on performing mature character roles as well as concert and recital performances&#8230; He has performed the title role of Falstaff, Don Alfonso (Cos\u00ec fan Tutte), Simone (Gianni Schicchi), Sprecher (Die Zauberfl\u00f6te), Duc de Verona (Rom\u00e9o et Juliette), Messiah, Mozart Requiem, Beethoven Mass in C Major, Winterreise, Magnificat (Bach), Messiah. His future engagements include the Mayor (Jenufa) as well as various concert and recital appearences.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He offers private technical and interpretive coaching as well as masterclasses in role preparation and general performance. Since 2023 he has been a guest Professor at the prestigious Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sof\u00eda in Madrid and will return for the academic year 2025\/26. He has given masterclasses at the Escuela Superior de Canto in Madrid, the Consevratorio Superior de M\u00fasica \u201cJoaqu\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez\u201d in Valencia, the Conservatorio Superior of Pa\u00eds Vasco \u201cMusikene\u201d, the Conservatorio Superior de Castilla y Le\u00f3n in Salamanca, Oberlin Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory and was Artist in Residence at the Opera Studio at the University of Alcal\u00e1 Henares in Madrid. 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