Christian Van Horn studied at Yale University and at the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In 2003 he won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and in 2018 he received the Richard Tucker Award.He has appeared on the stages of New York's Metropolitan Opera, the Chicago, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, Rome, Stuttgart, Toronto's Canadian Opera Company, Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper, Geneva's Grand Théâtre, and the Amsterdam National Opera, in a repertoire that includes Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), Mephistopheles (Faust), Lindorf, Coppélius, Wunderkind and Dappertutto (Les Contes d'Hoffmann), Escamillo (Carmen), Enrico VIII (Anna Bolena), Colline (La Bohème), Alidoro (La Cenerentola), Timur (Turandot), Banco (Macbeth), Oroveso (Norma), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Gessler (Guillaume Tell), Frère Laurent (Roméo et Juliette).He participated in the Santa Fe premieres of Tea: A Mirror of the Soul by Tan Dun and The Exterminating Angel by Thomas Adès at New York's Metropolitan Opera. In recent years he has sung the title role in Mefistofele, Colline, the Doctor (Wozzeck), Publio (La Clémence de Titus), and Nick Shadow (The Rake's Progress) at the Metropolitan Opera, Jacopo Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra) in Philadelphia, the title role in Don Giovanni in Vienna, and Raimondo Bidebent (Lucia di Lammermoor) in Munich.He recorded the role of Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) for Sony Classical and participated in the Metropolitan Opera's HD live broadcasts of Falstaff and The Exterminating Angel. In the 2024-2025 season, his roles include Escamillo in San Francisco and London, the title role of Attila in Madrid, Ramfis (Aida) and Zaccaria in Verona.At the Opéra national de Paris: Les Troyens (Narbal), 2019; La Clémence de Titus (Publio), 2021; Faust (Mephistopheles), 2021, 2022; Don Giovanni (title role), 2022; Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Lindorf, Coppélius, Dapertutto, Miracle), 2023.

Christian Van HornBass baritone