Christopher Johnstone
is one of America’s most promising young baritones in opera and on the concert stage. Praised by the Boston Globe as having a “romantic hero sound” with “leading-man looks,” Christopher is known for his ease of ability in both classical and music theater style. A native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Christopher now resides in New York City.
He has performed numerous lead roles to great acclaim including Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Belcore in L’Elisir d’amore, Orestes in Iphigénie en Tauride, Ottone in L’incoronatzione di Poppea, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Hanezo in L’Amico Fritz, Samuel in The Pirate vbs of Penzance, Lieutenant Montschi in Waltz Dream, Strephon in Iolanthe and Captain Walker in The Who’s Tommy! among others.
Christopher has sung with the Mark Morris Dance Group, Lyric Opera San Diego, Opera Pacific, Glimmerglass Opera, Theatre Cedar Rapids, the Pacific Symphony, the Modesto Symphony, the Grand Rapids Symphony, the Cincinnati Pops, the Boston Pops, the Long Beach Pops and the Long Beach Symphony.
A graduate of the Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music, Christopher has spent two summers alongside some of the world’s top artists at the Tanglewood Music Center. Last summer he performed the role of Nimming Ned in The Beggar’s Opera and covered the role of Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia at the Castleton Music Festival conducted by Lorin Maazel.
Other career highlights include performing with Christine Ebersole and Ron Raines in A Little Night Music with the Boston Pops and performing Poulenc’s Le bal masqué with Maestro James Levine.
Christopher is currently performing in the Ensemble and understudying the roles of Lt. Joseph Cable and Emile de Becque starring Rod Gilfry and Carmen Cusack on the first National Tour of South Pacific.