Christopher Holloway is an energetic, vibrant performer who “…acts with waltzlike precision…and is able to sing and act with equal agility.†A much sought after performer, Mr. Holloway has taken the opera stage with distinguished companies including Houston Grand Opera, Opera Tampa, Orlando Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Opera Naples, Amarillo Opera, Fresno Opera, Lyric Opera of Los Angeles, Orange County Opera, Opera in the Heights, Opera in the Ozarks, Brevard Music Center, and Operafestival di Roma. His extensive repertoire of operatic roles includes Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, the title role in Don Giovanni, Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amore, Pish-Tush in The Mikado, Morales, Dancairo, and Escamilio in Carmen, Lord Ruthven in Der Vampyr, Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Lescaut in Manon, Marcello and Schaunard in La Bohéme, Dandini in La Cenerentola, Silvio in I Pagliacci, Maximilian in Bernstein’s Candide, and Angelotti in Tosca.
Mr. Holloway was the 2003-2005 baritone Resident Artist for Orlando Opera where he made his company debut as Marullo in Rigoletto. Other projects with Orlando Opera have included Nogales in Luisa Fernanda, 2nd Soldier/Nazarene in Salomé, Pish-Tush in The Mikado, Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amore, Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Sciarrone in Tosca, and Elder McLean in Susannah.
Among additional credits, Mr. Holloway has appeared as a Juror in the world premiere of Tod Machover’s Resurrection with Houston Grand Opera, Vicar Gedge in Albert Herring, Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Ben in The Telephone, Bob in The Old Maid and the Thief, L’Armonier in Les Dialogues des Carmelites, Tom/John in Mollicone’s Face on the Barroom Floor, and the Doctor in Douglas Moore’s Gallantry. Always a stand-out, Mr. Holloway has been proclaimed as a baritone who “[demonstrated] burnished tones with excellent diction,†and an “audience favorite, [who] stole the show…â€
In recent competition, Mr. Holloway was named as an advanced division finalist in the Palm Beach Opera Competition, a finalist in the Los Angeles District of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a winner of the Pasadena Opera Guild Competition, a two-time finalist in the Heinz Rehfuss Singer/Actor Awards, a semi-finalist in the prestigious Zachary awards, and the encouragement award recipient from the Palm Springs Opera Guild.