Christopher Job

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Composer	Opera	Role
Bartok	Bluebeard’s Castle	Bluebeard
Bellini	I Capuleti e i Montecchi	Count Rodolfo
	Norma	Oroveso
	La Sonnambula	Count Rodolfo
Bizet	Carmen	Escamillo
	Les Pecheurs des Perles	Nourabad
Britten	Albert Herring	Superintendent Budd
	Billy Budd	Claggart
	Gloriana	Sir Walter Raleigh
	A Midsummer Night’s Dream	Bottom
	Paul Bunyan	Cross Crosshaulson
	Peter Grimes	Swallow
	The Rape of Lucreita	Collatinus
Donizetti	Lucia di Lammermoor	Raimondo
	L’Elisir d’Amore	Belcore, Dulcamara
Floyd	Susannah	Blitch
	Cold Sassy Tree	Rucker Lattimoore
Gounod	Faust	Mephistopheles
Handel	Ariodante	King of Scotland
	Giulio Cesare	Giulio Cesare
	Imeneo	Imeneo
	Orlando	Zoroastro
	Rinaldo	Argante
	Serse	Ariodate
Massenet	Don Quichotte	Don Quichotte
	Cendrillon	Pandolfe
	Cherubin	Le Philosophe
Meyerbeer	Robert Le Diable	Bertram
	Les Huguenots	Marcel
Mozart	Don Giovanni	Don Giovanni
	Le nozze di Figaro	Figaro, Count
Puccini	La boheme	Colline
	Fanciulla del West	Ashby
	Tosca	Angelotti
	Il Trittico	Simone, Gianni Schicchi, Talpa
	Turandot	Timur
Rossini	La Cenerentola	Alidoro
	La Gazza Ladra	Il Podesta
	L’Italiana in Algeri	Mustafa
	Il barbiere di Siviglia	Basilio, Bartolo
	Le Comte Ory	Tudur
	Semiramide	Assur
	Il Viaggio  a Reims	Lord Sidney
	La Siege de Corinthe	Mahomet II
	Guillaume Tell	Melcthal
	La Donna del Lago	Douglas
	Mose in Egitto	Mose
Sondheim	Sweeney Todd	Sweeney Todd
Stravinsky	Rake’s Progress	Nick Shadow
Verdi	Aida	King
	Falstaff	Pistola
	La Forza del Destino	Marquis of Calatrava
	Luisa Miller	Count Walter
	Nabucco	Zaccaria
	Rigoletto	Sparafucile
	La traviata	Grenvil
	Il trovatore	Ferrando
	Simon Boccanegra	Fiesco
	Un Ball in Maschera	Sam, Tom
Ward	Crucible	John Procter

Composer	Work
Bach	Christmas Oratorio
	Magnificat
Beethoven	Symphony No. 9
	Missa Solemnis
Faure	Requiem
Handel	Messiah
	Judas Maccabeus
Haydn	Creation
	The Seasons
Mozart	Requiem
	Mass in c minor
Mendelssohn	Elijah
	St. Paul
Verdi	Requiem

Bass-Baritone Christopher Job is establishing himself as an important talent in the opera industry.  In just the last few seasons, he has made his Italian debut at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna as Sparafucile in Rigoletto and Il Podestà in Rossini’s La Gazza Ladra; made his role debut as Escamillo in Carmen with Lyric Opera Virginia; his role debut as Alidoro in La Cenerentola with the Belle Ile Festival in France; and joined the Metropolitan Opera roster for their productions of Janacek’s From the House of the Dead, Shostakovich’s The Nose, The Enchanted Island, and La Rondine. Mr. Job returns again next season for The Nose.

With Opera Colorado, Mr. Job has appeared as Count Ribbing in Un Ballo in Maschera, Sprecher/2nd Priest in Die Zauberflöte, Dr. Dulcamara in L’Elisir d’Amore, Zuniga in Carmen, and Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail. He also created the role of General Godofredo de la Barca in the world premiere of La Curandera, an opera in one act by Robert Xavier Rodriguez, commissioned by Opera Colorado. In addition, he performed Blitch in Susannah with Opera Idaho; the 5^th Jew in Salome in his debut with Palm Beach Opera; made his role debut as Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro with Fargo Moorhead Opera; sang Colline in La bohème at Lyric Opera Baltimore; Ramfis in Aïda and Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni with Tulsa Opera and Opera Fort Collins; performed Kilian in Der Freischütz and Angelotti in Tosca at the Des Moines Metro Opera; and performed Baron Douphol in La traviata with Syracuse Opera and Lyric Opera of Virginia.

Mr. Job spent several summers with the Glimmerglass Opera, where he was seen as Caronte in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo ed Euridice, the Poet in Philip Glass’ Orphée, and Capellio in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi.  He was also a resident artist with the Minnesota Opera, singing Frère Laurent in Romeo et Juliette and Count Horn in Un Ballo in Maschera, among appearances in other productions.

Mr. Job has performed at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall with the New York Philharmonic, where he was featured in two roles in My Fair Lady, sharing the stage with Kelsey Grammer and Brian Dennehy. Other concert appearances include the bass soloist in Mozart’s Requiem at Carnegie Hall; bass soloist in Haydn’s Creation with the Greeley Philharmonic, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Verdi’s Requiem with the Denver Opera Company, and Handel’s Messiah with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and the Colorado Springs Philharmonic.

Other roles to his credit, both nationally and internationally, include Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, Méphistophélès in Gounod’s Faust, Reverend Hale and Francis Nurse in The Crucible, Dr. Grenvil in La traviata, Simone in Gianni Schicchi, Talpa in Il tabarro, Seneca in L’Incoronazione di Poppea, and the title role in Don Giovanni with such companies as Aspen Opera Theatre, Chautauqua Opera, Opera Omaha, Opera Pacific, as well as numerous other opera and concert appearances in countries such as Italy, Israel, Austria, the UK, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.