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Christopher Dylan Herbert is a performer of opera, classical voice and musical theater based in New York City. He has received acclaim for his heroic, bright and smooth baritone voice, his impeccable diction, his colorful styling, and his buoyant and versatile dramatic abilities.   He has performed in opera houses and concert halls throughout the United States and the world. 

Mr. Herbert recently won an encouragement award from the Sullivan Foundation, received third prize in the Kurt Weill Foundation’s Lotte Lenya Competition, was a finalist in the Liederkranz Foundation Competition, and performed the role of Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas with the Mark Morris Dance Group. He has performed within the past three years at Tanglewood, Central City Opera, Opéra Rouen, Opera Vivente, the Music Academy of the West, New York’s Marble Collegiate Church, and Lincoln Center.

During 2008, Mr. Herbert performed the role of Pluto in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld at Opera Vivente, the role of William Williamson in Bolcom’s A Wedding at Music Academy of the West, the baritone solos in Carmina Burana with the Handel Society of Dartmouth College, and performed with the charitable organization Sing For Hope at the New York Times Center in New York City.

Previous seasons have brought Mr. Herbert to many venues throughout the United States.  He recently performed at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California where he performed in recitals, opera scenes, and master classes provided by luminaries Marilyn Horne, Warren Jones, Lotfi Mansouri and Christopher Larkin.  Mr. Herbert also recently appeared at the Tanglewood Music Center where he performed on numerous concerts and recitals. Most notable among them was A Sondheim Celebration with the Boston Pops conducted by Keith Lockhart, wherein Mr. Herbert performed scenes as Anthony from Sweeney Todd, Frank from Merrily We Roll Along, and Charles from Evening Primrose at Boston's Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood's Koussevitsky Music Shed. Other appearances at Tanglewood included a performance as Phoebus in Bach's Cantata 201: Der Streit zwischen Phoebus und Pan with Craig Smith and a Tanglewood baroque orchestra, a song master class with James Levine, a fellowship recital of 20th century Finnish music, and an all-Stravinsky vocal chamber music concert, each in Seiji Ozawa Hall. Mr. Herbert has also performed at Central City Opera in Colorado as a Bonfils-Stanton Young Artist where he appeared as Dandy and Barney in The Ballad of Baby Doe and on scenes as Papageno in The Magic Flute, as Zurga in The Pearlfishers and as Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte. Other previous performances have included the role of the Puritan Leader in a co-production between Opera Boston and Boston Baroque of Gluck's Alceste, a Lincoln Center debut as the baritone soloist in Farewell to Music with the Christopher Caines Dance Company and performances as Pilgrim-Monk in Britten’s  Curlew River with Opéra Rouen at the Japan Society of New York.

In addition to his opera and oratorio experience, Mr. Herbert is an accomplished recitalist, and has interpreted art song from a variety of time periods and countries, ranging from Medieval to twenty-first century and from Brazil to Poland. His notable recitals include those at Tanglewood, Central City, Harvard University's Paine Hall, and Yale University's Sudler Hall. In 2006, Mr. Herbert added to his art-song experience as a Young Concert Artists International semifinalist, performing a wide variety of song literature at New York’s 92nd Street Y.

Mr. Herbert holds a B.A. in Music and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Yale University and an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University.  He is proficient in French, Italian and Arabic and currently resides in New York City.

Opera Roles
Sid	Albert Herring	Opera Vivente	2009
William Williamson           2008	A Wedding	Music Academy of the West	2008
Pluton/Aristée	Orpheus in the Underworld	Opera Vivente	2008
Schaunard (cover)	La Bohème	Music Academy of the West	2007
Dogianere	La Bohème	Music Academy of the West	2007
Aeneas	Dido and Aeneas	Mark Morris Dance Group	2007
Pilgrim Monk	Curlew River	Opéra Rouen/Japan Society of NY	2007
Njegus	The Merry Widow	Mobile Opera	2006
Dandy	The Ballad of Baby Doe	Central City Opera	2006
Barney (youth perf.)	The Ballad of Baby Doe	Central City Opera	2006
Guglielmo	Cosí fan tutte	Bronx Opera	2006
Puritan Leader	Alceste	Opera Boston/Boston Baroque	2005
Lead Player	Evening of Sondheim Review	Aspen Opera Theater Center	2003
Bartley	Riders to the Sea	Yale College Opera Company	2001
Figaro	Le Nozze di Figaro	Yale College Opera Company	2000
Concert Work
Recitalist	NY Recital for Proposal Winners	VIM Tribeca/ICO Music	2008
Baritone Soloist	Carmina Burana & Liebesliederwalzer	Collegiate Chorale	2007
Baritone Soloist	Taverner – In Memory…	New York Virtuoso Singers	2007
Anthony (Sweeney Todd)	Celebration of Sondheim	Boston Pops	2005
Phoebus	Der Streit zwischen Phoebus und Pan	Tanglewood Music Center	2005
Bass Soloist	Messiah	Fine Arts Chorale of Massachusetts	2005
Pontius	Pilate/Peter      St. John’s Passion	New Haven Oratorio Chorale	2004
Partial Opera Roles
Masetto	Don Giovanni	Music Academy of the West	2007
Frank	Die Fledermaus	Music Academy of the West	2007
Papageno	The Magic Flute	Central City Opera	2006
Zurga	Les Pêcheurs de Perles	Central City Opera	2006
Sid	Albert Herring	Aspen Opera Theater Center	2003
Education, Training Programs and Awards
Liederkranz Foundation Competition, Finalist 2008 Sullivan Foundation, Encouragement Award 2007 Music Academy of the West, Young Vocal Artist 2007, 2008 Lotte Lenya Competition for Singers, Third Prize 2007 Central City Opera, Bonfils-Stanton Young Artist 2006 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Semifinalist 2006 Tanglewood Music Center, Vocal Fellowship 2005 Harvard University, M.A., Middle Eastern Studies 2005 Aspen Opera Theater Center, Vocal Scholarship 2001,2003 Yale University, B.A., Music and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, magna cum laude 2002
Other Musical Training and Skills
Viola Studies: Symphonic, solo and chamber training, 12 years Yale Whiffenpoofs, premiere a cappella group, 2002 vice-president Stage Combat Training, Certified Personal Trainer, Extensive Movement, Dance, and Yoga Experience Fluent in French and Arabic, Proficient in Italian and Hebrew, Basic skills in German, Polish and Russian
Conductors Coaches Directors Master Classes Christopher Larkin John Churchwell Marc Astafan Phyllis Curtin Keith Lockhart Warren Jones Ed Berkeley Kenneth Griffiths John Moriarty Stephen Lord Patrick Diamond Graham Johnson Martin Pearlman Greg Ritchey Michael Ehrman James Levine Jerome Shannon Dawn Upshaw Lotfi Mansouri Patricia Racette
“Baritone Christopher Herbert performed heroically with Orff’s cruelly high tessitura and sang with impeccable diction.” - Robert Levine, Classics Today, May 15, 2007 (regarding Carmina Burana with the Collegiate Chorale) www.christopherdylanherbert.com