Christopher Burchett’s rich, no-holds-barred baritone voice and committed stagecraft have earned him a place on the stages of opera companies throughout the United States and Europe including New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, the Estates Theatre in Prague, Czech Republic, Palm Beach Opera, Opera Orchestra of New York, Virginia Opera, Opera Omaha, Eugene Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Kentucky Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Glimmerglass Opera and Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Most recently, Opera News described Christopher as a “fearlessly vulnerable” performer “who gave an unflinchingly, heroically human performance that will linger long in the memory.”
 
Christopher began the 2013 season in New York with the one man opera Soldier Songs by David T. Little as part of the PROTOTYPE Festival produced by Beth Morrison Projects and HERE. Following this, Christopher was in Boston to take part in Boston Lyric Opera’s “Signature Series” recitals and then made a return engagement with The York Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. In May, he traveled to London for the European premiere of Oceanic Verses with the BBC Orchestra at the Barbican Centre and then returned to New York to perform in a workshop reading of the new opera La Reina by Jorge Sosa with American Lyric Theater, singing the role of El Gringo. In the summer, he sang the role of Captain Corcoran in H.M.S Pinafore with Opera Saratoga (formerly Lake George Opera) and last fall created the role of Sandro in the world premiere of Paul Richards’ opera Biennale with the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. The remainder of the year included Britten’s War Requiem with the Washington National Chorus at the Kennedy Center, Carmina Burana with the Omaha Symphony, Beth Morrison Projects’ Liederabend in New York and Handel’s Messiah with the Portland Baroque Orchestra.
 
The 2014 season has Christopher singing the Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos with Virginia Opera and performing his 10th world premiere creating the roles of Victor and the Producer in the double bill of Embedded and Buried Alive with Fargo Moorhead Opera. He then sings Father Palmer in Kevin Put’s Silent Night with Fort Worth Opera and reprises the Soldier in Soldier Songs with The Holland Festival and Beth Morrison Projects in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In the fall, Christopher sings Ashby in La Fanciulla del West with Opera Coeur d’Alene and takes part in a concert performance of David Lang’s opera The Difficulty of Crossing a Field in New York. He then returns to Virginia Opera to once again sing Captain Cocoran in H.M.S. Pinafore and finishes the year with performances of Handel’s Messiah with the Trinity Choir and Baroque Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall.
 
This season Christopher sings the title role in Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre’s production of Don Giovanni, Sandro in American Symphony Orchestra’s production of Mona Lisa at Carnegie Hall and the title role in Eugene Opera’s production of Sweeney Todd. This is followed by Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Bel Canto Chorus of Milwaukee and Antonio in the world premiere of Joseph Summer’s The Tempest with The Shakespeare Concerts. In the fall he sings concerts with Salt Marsch Opera, Arias and Barcarolles with Copland House and A Continental Cabaret with Opera Saratoga. He then ends the year in Boston with a workshop of the opera Gilgamesh at the New England Conservatory of Music.
 
2016 engagements include a return to the Omaha Symphony for the chamber work American Muse, a workshop of Jorge Sosa’s La Reina as part of the Prototype Festival, a Valentine’s Recital with wife, Avery Boettcher in Kentucky, a cd release event of Mohammed Fairouz’s No Orpheus at La Poison Rouge in New York, the roles of Victor and the Producer in the Poe Project with Fort Worth Opera and the role of Ming in world premiere of the Paola Prestini’s opera Gilgamesh as part of the Ouroboros Trilogy and Beth Morrison Projects at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theater in Boston.
 
A champion of new music, Christopher has been a part of several world premieres, creating the roles of Orsen in Edwin Penhorwood’s opera Too Many Sopranos with Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, M. Carré-Lamadon in Stephen Hartke’s The Greater Good with Glimmerglass Opera and Justin in Anthony Davis’ opera Wakonda’s Dream and Baritone Soloist in Paul Moravec’s Blizzard Voices, both with Opera Omaha. He has also participated in the revival of several 21st century works including the oratorio Restless Mourning by Anthony Davis and the roles of Braxton and Sherrin in Sir Richard Rodney Bennett’s opera The Mines of Sulphur.
 
Widely sought after for his concert work, Christopher has appeared with many of the country’s finest Bach festivals including the Carmel Bach Festival, Boulder Bach Festival, Louisville Bach Society and Bethlehem Bach Festival where he sang Bach’s B Minor Mass as part of an Emmy winning national PBS broadcast entitled “Make a Joyful Noise”. Other concert highlights include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the New Hampshire Music Festival, Vaughn Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols with the New York Choral Society at Carnegie Hall, Britten’s War Requiem with the Louisville Orchestra, Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony with Princeton Pro Musica and “So in Love With Broadway”, a concert of musical standards and selections of hits from the music of Frank Loesser with the Omaha Symphony.
 
Christopher can be heard on the Naxos record label in Stephen Hartke’s opera The Greater Good and Julian Wachner’s oratorio Come My Dark Eyed One. In 2016 he can also be heard on Naxos in Mohammed Fairouz’s song album No Orpheus and the title role of Benard Rands’ opera Vincent. Other recordings available in 2015 include Paola Prestini’s Oceanic Verses on the VIA label, David Lang’s opera The Difficulty of Crossing a Field on the Canteloupe label and Joseph Summer’s opera The Tempest on Albany Records to be released December 2015. He can also currently be heard on the I-tunes label as part of the “Opera America Songbook”, a recorded collection of 47 songs commissioned by Opera America to celebrate the opening of the National Opera Center.
 
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