Christopher Lemmings
Der Bucklige in Die Frau ohne Schatten
Biografie
Opleiding
Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London (bij: Johanna Peters, Margaret Lensky)
Bij: Michelle Wegwart
Hoogtepunten
Nicholas Maw’s Stingo/Sophie’s Choice (Covent Garden); Thomas Adès’ Caliban/The Tempest (Covent Garden, BBC television, Strasbourg); Scaramuccio/Ariadne auf Naxos (Covent Garden); Tito/La Clemenza di Tito, Belmonte/Die Entführung aus dem Serail; Lechmere/Owen Wingrave (Glyndebourne Tour); Il Maestro di Ballo/Manon Lescaut (Glyndebourne Festival); Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s Bartholomew/The Last Supper (Staatsoper, Berlin); Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni (Köln/Verona); Albert/Albert Herring (English Touring Opera); L’abate di Chazeuil/Adriana Lecouvreur; Ferrando/Così fan tutte (Holland Park Opera)
Specialisatie
Wereldcreaties, 20’ste-eeuws en hedendaags repertoire
Toshio Hosokawa’s Edmund/King Lear (Linbury Theatre, Covent Garden); Gerald Barry’s Beauty/Triumph of Beauty and Deceit (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Almeida Theatre London, Dutch Ives Ensemble, Los Angeles Philharmonic); Paul Frehner’s Sid Thatcher/Sirius on Earth (Almeida Theatre London); Edward Rushton’s Neoptolemus/Birds, Barks, Bones (Linbury Theatre, Covent Garden); Molqi/The Death of Klinghoffer (Finnish National Opera); Pascal Dusapin’s Perelà/Perelà L’uomo di Fumo (Bastille Paris, Montpelier); Nihilist/Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (ENO); Sir Michael Tippett’s Dov/Knot Garden (Covent Garden, Music Theatre Wales)
Gewerkt met
o.a. Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Barenboim
Recente en toekomstige producties
Sellem/The Rake’s Progress (Nantes, Angers, Rennes); Die Zweiter Junge Offizier/Die Soldaten (Ruhrtriennale Bochum, New York Lincoln Centre Festival); Beauty/Triumph of Beauty and Deceit (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Carnegie Hall New York); Clarence, Tyrrel/Richard III (Strasbourg); Robin Fingest/For You (Linbury London, Cardiff); Bartolomeo/The Last Supper (Torino, Milano)
