American bass-baritone Christian 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, and Netherlands Opera, and at the Salzburg and Munich festivals. His many 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, Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress, Escamillo in Carmen, Colline in La bohème, Alidoro in La Cenerentola, and Oroveso in Norma.  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, he has appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival Easter Festival, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and at Carnegie Hall, the Royal Concertgebouw, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and the Mostly Mozart and Bard music festivals.

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.