Christopher Maltman

Maltman’s 2026-27 season begins with a new production of Zemlinsky’s Eine florentinische Tragödie by Vasily Barkhatov before returning to Opéra national de Paris for Calixto Bieito’s full Ring Cycle, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado. Maltman makes his debut as Jack Rance in a new production by Richard Jones of La fanciulla del West at the Metropolitan Opera. He performs at the Salzburg Easter Festival in their next instalment of their new Ring Cycle as Wotan in Die Walküre with Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker and he returns to the Royal Ballet & Opera as Scarpia Tosca. On the concert platform, Maltman stars with Lise Davidsen in a Wagner Highlight’s concert at Palau de les Arts Valencia and makes his debut in Bluebeard’s Castle at Hungarian State Opera. He performs recitals at Leeds Song, the Library of Congress DC and Litomyšl Festival.

The 2025-26 season saw Maltman 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 included 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 included a return to Teatro alla Scala as the Narrator in Schoenberg’s A survivor from Warsaw and Mahler’s Rückert Lieder 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.

Further recent engagements include Hans Sachs Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Staatsoper unter den Linden); Jupiter Die liebe von der Danae (Bayerische Staatsoper); Wotan Das Rheingold (Royal Ballet & Opera) and Die Walküre (Royal Ballet & Opera, Opéra national de Paris, Teatro di San Carlo); Jochanaan Salome (Staatsoper Hamburg); Sharpless Madama Butterfly (Opéra national de Paris); Escamillo Carmen (Wiener Staatsoper); Scarpia Tosca (Staatsoper unter den Linden); Don Alfonso Così fan tutte (Wiener Staatsoper); Leporello Don Giovanni (Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Ballet & Opera); Iago Otello (Bayerische Staatsoper); Count di Luna Il trovatore (Washington National Opera); Amfortas Parsifal (Grand Théâtre de Genève); Ford Falstaff (Metropolitan Opera); Rigoletto (Staatsoper unter den Linden); and Mandryka Arabella (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 Nézet-Séguin.

Maltman’s previous concert appearances include Mahler Symphony No.8 (Wiener Konzerthaus, La Monnaie, Orchestre de Paris); Beethoven Symphony No.9 (Münchner Philhamoniker); Schubert’s Winterreise with Audrey Saint-Gil (Oxford International Song Festival); Mendelssohn’s Elijah (Edinburgh International Festival); Don Pizarro Fidelio under the baton of Myung-Whun Chung (Busan Concert Hall); Kurwenal Tristan und Isolde in concert with Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Festival de Lanaudière); Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra; Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra; Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with Lahti Symphony Orchestra; Brahms’ Ein deutsches 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.