Christopher Gillett

The British tenor Christopher Gillett has sung in opera houses across the globe and with many of the world’s finest orchestras and conductors. He made his Covent Garden debut in 1984 and has sung many roles for the Royal Opera‚ English National Opera and Glyndebourne Touring Opera. He has performed extensively abroad‚ particularly for the Netherlands Opera. His many operatic world premieres include Rosa‚ a horse opera, Gassir the hero and A King Riding.
  Concert performances include Henze’s Voices and Britten’s Nocturne with Oliver Knussen, Peter Grimes with the London Symphony and Sir Collin Davis and Maderna’s Venetian Journal with the ASKO Ensemble. Gillett is also a noted interpreter of Bach and has sung the Evangelist in the Bach Choir’s annual performances of St Matthew Passion many times.
  Gillett has also written the highly acclaimed books Who’s My Bottom? and Scraping The Bottom and directed a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Lyric Theatre to great acclaim.