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| Christian Van Horn (Photo © Brian Kuhlmann 2012) |
Christian Van Horn has a
leading man's energetic charm and dashing good looks — virtues that were
kept somewhat under wraps this past fall, when he was singing Raimondo
in
Lucia di Lammermoor and Crespel in
Les Contes d'Hoffmann at Lyric Opera of Chicago and
Turandot's
Timur at San Francisco Opera. "When I show up for a job and go to have a
wig fitting, I can always spot mine — it's the gray one, and it usually
has a long, gray beard to go with it." Van Horn has a fair amount of
practice playing older men: during his two full seasons as a contract
artist at Bayerische Staatsoper, his seventeen roles included a run as
Edita Gruberova's father in
Norma, an experience he says was
"kind of like singing with Angelina Jolie, because [Gruberova] is so
wildly famous there. The applause after the show would last for an hour
sometimes, and the crowds of people waiting for her outside the theater
were unbelievable."
[Read the entire feature at the Opera News
website]
F. PAUL DRISCOLL
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