Christopher Robertson

Christopher Robertson has a successful and diverse international career, performing a wide repertoire on many of the world’s most prestigious stages.
He has sung leading roles in theaters such as Teatro alla Scala (where he debuted at the opening of the 2002 season), Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Unter den Linden, Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Teatro Real, Gran Teatro del Liceu, Teatro de la Maestranza, Palau de les Arts, Royal Opera Copenhagen, New National Theater Tokyo, Opera National of Poland, English National Opera, Wexford Festival, Opera of Flanders, Komische Oper, Opera of Leipzig, Frankfurt, Rome, Turin, Genoa, Naples, Palermo, Catania, Salerno, Bilbao, Malaga, Oviedo, La Coruña, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Israel, Athens, Santiago de Chile, Rio de Janeiro, New York City Opera, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Vancouver, among others.
As a concert and recital performer, he has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Het Concertgebouw, BBC Symphony, BR Orchester und Chor, NDR Orchester, National Orchestra of the Czech Republic, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, RAI Symphony, Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw, Cuenca Sacred Music Festival, Bilbao Symphony, Galicia Orchestra, Orchestra of the Principality of Asturias, Oviedo Symphony, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Stavanger Symphony, Darmstadt Staatsorchester, Aspen Music Festival, Minnesota Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, among others, in addition to frequent concerts and recitals throughout America and Europe.
He has collaborated with renowned conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, James Levine, Charles Mackerras, Yuri Temirkanov, Jesús López Cobos, Christoph Eschenbach, Kent Nagano, James Conlon, Charles Dutoit, Michel Plasson, Ivor Bolton, Antonio Pappano, Jeffrey Tate, Richard Bonynge, Leonard Slatkin, David Zinman, Neeme Järvi, Donald Runnicles, Daniel Oren, Anton Guadagno, Julius Rudel, Eiji Oue, Juanjo Mena, Marco Armiliato, Josep Pons, John Fiore, Nicola Luisotti, Gary Bertini, among others.
He has participated in productions directed by Franco Zeffirelli, Emilio Sagi, Robert Carsen, Yannis Kokkos, Calixto Bieito, Davide Livermore, Andreas Homoki, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Jonathan Miller, John Copley, John Cox, Elijah Moshinsky, Achim Freyer, Lotfi Mansouri, Thaddeus Strassberger, Willy Decker, Otto Schenk, Harry Kupfer, Doucet/Barbe, Leiser/Chaurier, Barry Kosky, Francesca Zambello and Peter Mussbach.
Throughout his extensive career, he has shared the stage with some of the most important and influential singers in history. He has performed more than eighty leading roles in ten languages, encompassing repertoire from the Baroque to contemporary music, from the lyrical to the heroic. His concert and recital repertoire includes works by the great composers, from J.S. Bach to Britten and contemporary composers. Robertson performs the role of Le Marquis de la Force in the recording of Les Dialogues des Carmélites by Poulenc at the Teatro alla Scala under the direction of Riccardo Muti. He also appears as Althair in the recording of Die ägyptische Helena by Richard Strauss with the American Symphony Orchestra (Telarc), as King Henry IV in the recording of Plump Jack by Gordon Getty (Pentatone), and as Riccardo in I Puritani by Bellini (Nuova Era), conducted by Richard Bonynge. Recently, he has focused on mature character roles of various styles, as well as concerts and recitals. He has performed roles such as Falstaff, Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Simone (Gianni Schicchi), Sprecher (Die Zauberflöte), Duc de Verona (Roméo et Juliette), Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Mass in C major, Winterreise, and will soon appear as the Mayor (Jenůfa) and in several concerts.
He offers private technique and interpretation classes, as well as master classes on role preparation and stage performance. In 2021/22 he was a guest professor at the Escuela Superior de Canto in Madrid and in 2023 he gave master classes at the Conservatorio Superior de Música “Joaquín Rodrigo” in Valencia. In 2024 he offered master classes at Musikene (Basque Country) and at the Conservatorio Superior de Salamanca. In 2026 he will give master classes at the Vocal Academy Musicalta in Alsace and has been invited to teach at the Weimar Opera Academy.
He has also given master classes at the Oberlin Conservatory, the Peabody Conservatory, and has been Artist in Residence at the Opera Studio of the University of Alcalá de Henares in Madrid.
Robertson is a graduate of Oberlin College, where he studied with Richard Miller. He was a member of the Merola Young Artist Program of the San Francisco Opera and the Wolf Trap Opera Program in Washington D.C. He is the recipient of a career grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation. He is a member of the Sociedad La Bilbaína, a member of the Academy of Performing Arts of Spain, and a member of the Union of Lyric Artists of Spain. He is a Spanish citizen and resides between Madrid and Bilbao.
Since the 2025-2026 academic year, he has been Professor of Stage Performance of the Voice Chair “Alfredo Kraus” Ramón Areces Foundation of the Reina Sofía School of Music, where he has already been a guest professor several times since 2023.