The British baritone Christopher Maltman studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and was a prizewinner at the Singer of the World Competition in Cardiff.
He has sung at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the San Francisco Opera, the Staatsoper Berlin, English National Opera and the Glyndebourne Festival. Recently he sang the title role in Don Giovanni (Salzburger Festspiele, Bayerische Staatsoper), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen), Marcello (La bohème), Ramiro in L’Heure espagnole (Royal Opera House Covent Garden), Il Conte di Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro (Opéra national de Paris, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Oper Zurich) and Šiškov in From the House of the Dead (Wiener Staatsoper).
Other engagements include Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte at the Bayerische Staatsoper, the title role in Eugene Onegin at the Wiener Staatsoper, and Graf Andrea Vitellozzo Tamare in Die Gezeichneten at the Münchner Opernfestspiele, as well as Dutch National Opera productions of Don Carlo and Don Giovanni.