American Bass-baritone Christian Van Horn has appeared in many of the worlds celebrated opera houses including The San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Bayerische Staatsoper, Salzburg Festival, Los Angeles Opera, The Santa Fe Opera, and Staatsoper Stuttgart.  His roles include the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Timur in Turandot, Colline in La Bohème, Oroveso in Norma, Banquo in Macbeth, Mephistopheles in Faust, and Claudio in Agrippina.

This season, bass-baritone Christian Van Horn returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago (where he is an alumnus of the Ryan Opera Center)to sing Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor and Crespel in the Tales of Hoffmann. Christian also returned to the San Francisco Opera singing Timur in Turandot and then made his debut with the Canadian Opera Company in Tosca.  This spring he returns to the Salzburg Easter Festival for performances of Carmen with Sir Simon Rattle followed by a recording of Carmen with the Berlin Philharmonic for EMI.  This summer Mr. Van Horn makes a  house and role debut with the Grand Theatre du Geneve singing Banquo in Macbeth and then a debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic singing Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.

2012/2013 CVH returns to the San Francisco Opera as the 4 Villains in the the Tales of Hoffmann and a debut with the Dallas Opera as Timur in Turandot and a debut in the Netherlands as Gessler in Giullaume Tell.       

The 2010/2011 season Christian made his debut with the San Francisco Opera as the King in Aida and Baillif in Werther.  Made a return to the Bayerische Staatsoper as Colline in La Bohéme, and had debuts with the Portland Opera as Timur in Turandot and with the Boston Lyric Opera as Claudio in Agrippina, Mephistopheles in Faust with the North Carolina Opera, Beethoven 9th with the American Symphony Orchestra,  and a return to the Santa Fe Opera as Colline in La Boheme. 

Future Engagements include a debuts with the Metropolitan Opera, CVH also returns to The San Francisco Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Netherlands Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, San Diego Opera,     

A graduate of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists, Mr. Van Horn has also appeared there in productions of The Pearl Fishers, Carmen, Der Rosenkavalier, and Aida and The Damnation of Faust. Other opera engagements have included Colline, Oroveso in Norma at the Bayerische Staatsoper; his debuts at the Salzburg Festival as the Duke of Verona in Romeo et Juliette  (Deutsche Grammophone DVD), the Santa Fe Opera in Tan Dun’s opera Tea: A Mirror of the Soul, the Los Angeles Opera as Colline.  Christian has sung the title role in Le nozze di Figaro with the Chicago Opera Theater, Arizona Opera and Staatsoper Stuttgart.  Karenin in Anna Karenin (world premiere) Florida Grand Opera. Christian's live performance of Karenin with the St. Louis Symphony and the rest of the original cast can be heard on the commercially-released Signum Classics recording.

Mr. Van Horn’s recent concert engagements have included his debuts at the Salzburg Festival Easter Festival in a concert with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle, Verdi's Requiem with the Hof Symphoniker, KlangVerwaltung Orchestra, and the Orquesta Sinfonica Valladolid. At Carnegie Hall in a concert programmed by the Emerson String Quartet as part of their Perspective Series. Other notable concert appearances have included Tippet’s Child of Our Time with the Chicago Symphony (with Sir Andrew Davis), Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the Pacific Symphony, and the opening concerts of the Bard Music Festival.

Christian can be heard on recordings with Deutsche Grammaphone, Sony Classical, EMI and Signum Classics.  

Mr. Van Horn received his Master’s degree in music from Yale University where he studied with Richard Cross.