Christopher Robertson

Christopher Robertson has enjoyed a successful and highly diverse international career singing a wide range of repetoire on many of the world’s 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 National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Teatro Real, Teatro Liceu, 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, Oper Leipzig, Frankfurt, Rome, Torino, Genova, Napoli, Palermo, Catania, Salerno, Bilbao, Malaga, Oviedo, La Coruña, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Israel, Athens, Santiago, Chile, Rio de Janairo, NY City Opera, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Vancouver etc.
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, Sinfonica de Oviedo, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Stavanger Symphony, Darmstadt Staatorchester, Aspen Music Festival, Minnesota Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, etc. as well as in 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 Mackarras, Yuri Temirkanov, Jesus Lopez 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.
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, Barry Kovsky, Francesca Zambella, Peter Mussbach.
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 period to the Contemporary, from lyric to the heroic. Robertson also has an extensive concert and recital repetoire that includes works by many of the greatest composers for the concert stage from J. S. Bach and his contemporaries to Britten and more contemporary works. R
obertson performs the role of Le Marquis de la Force in the recording from Teatro alla Scala of Poulenc’s Les Dialogues de las Carmelites 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 Riccardo 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 will appear as the Mayor, (Jenufa) and in various concerts.
He offers private technical and interpretive coaching as well as masterclasses in role preparation and general performance. In 2021/22 he was an invited professor at the Escuela Superior de Canto in Madrid and in 2023 he presented masterclasses at the Consevratorio Superior de Musica “Joaquín Rodríguez” in Valencia. In 2024 he presented masterclasses at the Conservatorio Superior of País Vasco, Musikene and the Conservatorio Superior de Salamanca. In 2026 he will be appearing in masterclasses at the Vocal Academy Musicalta in Alsace, and has been invited to teach at the Weimar Opera Academy.
He has presented masterclasses at Oberlin Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory as well as been Artist in Residence 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 was a member of the Merola Young Artist Program at the San Francisco Opera as well as the Wolf Trap Opera Program in Washington D.C. He is a recipient of a Career Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation. He is a member of the Sociedad La Bilbaina, is an Academico in La Academia de Artes Escénicas de España and a member of the Sindicato de Artistas Líricos de España. He a Spanish Citizen and resides between Madrid and Bilbao.
Since the 2025–2026 academic year, he is Professor of Lyric Scene of the “Alfredo Kraus” Fundación Ramón Areces Voice Chair at the Reina Sofía School of Music, where he has already been a guest professor on several occasions since 2023.