Christopher Maltman

This season Maltman’s makes two anticipated role debuts: the Dutchman Der fliegende Holländer with the Bayerische Staatsoper on tour to Shanghai and at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl and Der Wanderer in Barrie Kosky’s new production of Siegfried at the Royal Ballet & Opera. Other important highlights include Don Pizarro in a new production of Fidelio at the Wiener Staatsoper; Scarpia Tosca at the Staatsoper unter den Linden and Wiener Staatsoper; and Don Alfonso Così fan tutte again at the Wiener Staatsoper. On the concert platform, Maltman’s performances include a  return to Teatro alla Scala as the Narrator in Schoenberg’s A survivor from Warsaw under the baton of Riccardo Chailly;  Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra; and two concert performances of  Der fliegende Holländer with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.

The 2024-25 season saw him add two powerhouse roles to huge acclaim: Hans Sachs in Wagner’s  Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Staatsoper Berlin; and Jupiter in a new production of Strauss’ Die liebe von der Danae at the Bayerische Staatsoper. He also returned as Wotan in the second instalment of Barrie Kosky’s new Ring Cycle, Die Walküre at the Royal Ballet & Opera; Jochanaan Salome at the Staatsoper Hamburg; and sang  Sharpless Madama Butterfly at the Opéra national de Paris; and Escamillo Carmen at the Wiener Staatsoper. On the concert platform, Maltman performed in Mahler 8 at the Wiener Konzerthaus and La Monnaie; Beethoven 9 with the Münchner Philharmoniker; Schubert’s Winterreise with Audrey Saint-Gil at the Oxford International Song Festival; and Mendelssohn’s Elijah at the Edinburgh International Festival. He also made his debut as Don Pizarro in a concert version of Fidelio at the Busan Concert Hall and performed as Kurwenal Tristan und Isolde at the Festival de Lanaudière under the baton of Yannick Nezet Seguin.

Further recent engagements include Wotan Das Rheingold at the Royal Ballet & Opera; Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca at the Staatsoper Berlin; Don Alfonso Così fan tutte and Leporello Don Giovanni, both at Wiener Staatsoper; Iago Otello at Bayerische Staatsoper; Leporello Don Giovanni at the Royal Ballet & Opera; Count di Luna Il Trovatore at Washington National Opera; Amfortas Parsifal at the Grand Théâtre de Genève; Ford Falstaff at the Metropolitan Opera; Wotan Die Walküre at the Teatro di San Carlo; Rigoletto at Staatsoper Berlin; and Mandryka Arabella at Wiener Staatsoper

Maltman’s previous concert appearances include Zemlinksy’s Lyric Symphony with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra; Mahler Symphony No.8 with the Orchestre de Paris; Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra; Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with Lahti Symphony Orchestra; Brahms’ Ein deutches Requiem with Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and Zemlinsky’s Eine florentinishe Tragödie with Münchner Rundfunkorchester. He also appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Conlon at the Ravinia Festival;  Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst;  Philharmonia Orchestra and Christoph von Dohnanyi; BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Adams; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle; Tadaaki Otaka, Valery Gergiev and Sir Colin Davis;  Concentus Musicus Wien with Nikolaus Harnoncourt/  Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala and Daniel Harding; Dresden Staatskapelle and Sir John Eliot Gardiner; Boston Symphony and James Conlon and Sir Colin Davis; Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen; New York Philharmonic and Kurt Masur;  and the Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst.

Following his degree in Biochemistry from the University of Warwick, Maltman studied singing at the Royal Academy of Music. His breakthrough performance came when he won the Lieder Prize in the 1997 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. He remains a renowned interpreter of Lieder and song. His vast and varied discography includes John Corigliano’s Grammy award-winning Ghost of Versailles from Los Angeles Opera. In 2023, Erato released Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette & Cléopâtre featuring Maltman with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, led by John Nelson.