Chris Merritt

Education
Oklahoma City University, where he also received his honorary Doctorate of Music

Debut
Falstaff (Santa Fe), 1975

Highlights
Aron/Moses und Aron (Nederlandse Opera; Salzburg Festival; Stuttgart; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Chicago); Bacchus/Ariadne auf Naxos (Lissabon, München, Dresden); wereldpremière van Hans Werner Henzes Venus und Adonis (München, Tokyo); Prins/Rusalka (Metropolitan Opera); Aeneas/Les Troyens (Lissabon); Loge/Das Rheingold (Amsterdam, Toulouse); Oedipus/Oedipus Rex (Amsterdam); Herod (Bologna, Genoa); Hauptmann/Wozzeck (Hamburg; Saito Kinen Festival; San Diego); Mephistopheles/Doktor Faust van Busoni (Salzburg Festival); Tichon/Káťa Kabanová (Hamburg; Glyndebourne; Metropolitan Opera; Covent Garden); Lilaque père/Boulevard Solitude van Henze (Covent Garden); Prins Sjoesjki/Boris Godoenov (Deutsche Oper am Rhein); Elektra (Bayerische Staatsoper, Hamburg; Tokyo; Hong Kong); Herodes/Salome (Bologna; Genua; Opéra national de Paris; Stuttgart; Straatsburg; Hong Kong; La Monnaie); Herodes & Éléazar/La Juive (Paris; Stuttgart); Le lépreux/St. Francois d’Assise (Salzburg; Opéra de Paris)

Recordings
Various recordings and video’s, such as: St. François d'Assise (Messiaen) by DG (Grammy nomination-Best Opera Recording); Wozzeck by EMI (Grammy nomination-Best Opera Recording)

Worked with
Conductors, such as Abbado, Barenboim, Boulez, Chailly, Gergiev, Mehta, Muti, Nagano, Pretre, Pritchard, Sinopoli, Tate, Thielemann

Recent and future productions
Governor/Candide (Vlaamse Opera)