Christopher Robertson has emerged as one of the most important young baritones on the opera scene, having already appeared with many leading opera companies throughout the world including the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, San Francisco Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bavarian State Opera, and the Royal Opera, Covent Garden.
He has worked with many major North American opera companies: Marcello, Don Giovanni, Sharpless and Albert (Werther) at the Met; Rigoletto, Germont and the title role in Chukadjian's Arshak II in San Francisco; Mr. Redburn, Sharpless and Kurwenal in Houston. In addition to performing from his repertoire at the New York City Opera, in Pittsburgh, Washington, Michigan, Boston, Florida Grand Opera, Seattle, Connecticut, Saint Louis, Minnesota, at the Aspen Festival and Vancouver and Montreal.
Major European appearances include: Agamemnon at La Scala, Ford in Firenze, Germont at the English National Opera, Escamillo in Iceland, Count Almaviva at the Staatsoper in Munich, Orestes (Iphigénie en Tauride) in Berlin and Frankfurt and Guglielmo in Frankfurt, Zurga in Rome, Renato for the Flemish Opera, Guglielmo in Bordeaux, Almaviva in Montpellier, Guglielmo in San Sebastian, Don Giovanni in Barcelona and Mallorca, Donner and Dandini in Valencia and Belcore (L'elisir d'amore) in Madrid and Bilbao He also sang two rarities in Spain: Urdasbal in Francisco Escudero's Zigor in Bilbao, and the title role of Albeniz' Merlin at the Teatro Real in Madrid.
Recent engagements include: Amfortas and Don Fernando in Genoa, Germont and Count Almaviva in Tokyo, the High Priest in Samson et Dalila with Opera Pacific, the title role in Rigoletto with Opera Colorado, Fotis in Martinu's The Greek Passion in Cagliari, Marquis de la Force in Dialogues des Carmelites at La Scala, Captain Balstrode in Santiago de Chile, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Bilbao and with the Minnesota Orchestra, Berlioz' L'enfance du Christ with the Orchestra of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Beethoven's Christ on the Mount of Olives with the Berkeley Symphony, Altair in Die Ägyptische Helena with the American Symphony Orchestra, Verdi's Aroldo at Covent Garden, The Tender Land with the BBC Orchestra, Carmina Burana with the Baltimore Symphony and Guillaume Tell with the Washington Concert Opera.
Future engagements include: Don Fernando in Fidelio at the Peralada Festival in Spain, Scarpia with Madison Opera, Sharpless and Emilio Sagi in La Forza del Destino in a new production in Tokyo, Marquis de la Force in the Robert Wilson production of Dialogues of the Carmelites in Madrid with Jesus Lopez-Cobos and Don Fernando in Fidelio in concert with the Warsaw Easter Festival with Antoni Wit.
Notable conductors he has worked along side include Neeme Järvi, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, James Levine, Yuri Temirkanov, Jeffery Tate, Kent Nagano, Leonard Slatkin, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Antonio Pappano, James Conlon, David Zinman, Charles Dutoit, Michel Plasson, Bertrand de Billy, Ivor Bolton, Jan Latham Koenig and Carlo Rizzi.