Chris Merritt was born in Oklahoma City and completed his education at the Oklahoma City University, which bestowed on him an honorary doctorate. He has made guest appearances at the leading opera houses in the world, in New York, London, Paris, Milan, Hamburg, Munich, Vienna, Amsterdam, Venice, Rome, Barcelona and Buenos Aires. Among his most important rôles have been Idomeneo, Tito, Ferrando, Tamino and the great tenor rôles of Verdi, Puccini, Rossini and Offenbach. m>

Chris Merritt American-born tenor

Chris Merritt has appeared in Moses und Aron, Oberon, Busoni’s Doktor Faustus and Messiaen’s St François d’Assise at the Salzburg Festival. He sang in the world première of Henze’s Venus und Adonis in Munich, in Rusalka at the New York Metropolitan Opera and appeared as Herod in Genoa, Bologna and at The Netherlands Opera; he sang Wozzeck and in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny and Katya Kabanová at the Hamburg State Opera. Other appearances include Henze’s Boulevard Solitude at Covent Garden and Glyndebourne, and Ariadne auf Naxos in Dresden. In Stuttgart he sang the rôle of the Fugitive in Intolleranza 1960.

 Experienced performances

Metropolitan Opera

[Met Concert/Gala] CID:350552 National Council Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 03/28/1976 First Appearance: Chris Merritt, Ashley Putnam, John Carpenter, William Stone

[Met Performance] CID:270820 Parade: An Evening of French Music Theater {8} Parade {8} Les Mamelles de Tirésias {8} L’Enfant et les Sortilèges {8} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/6/1982 Debuts: Lester Holmes, Eric Lamp, Gail Dubinbaum, Emily Hastings

[Met Performance] CID:270870 Parade: An Evening of French Music Theater {9} Parade {9} Les Mamelles de Tirésias {9} L’Enfant et les Sortilèges {9} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/11/1982 Broadcast

[Met Performance] CID:270910 Parade: An Evening of French Music Theater {10} Parade {10} Les Mamelles de Tirésias {10} L’Enfant et les Sortilèges {10} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/14/1982

[Met Performance] CID:270960 Parade : An Evening of French Music Theater{11} Parade {11} Les Mamelles de Tirésias {11} L’Enfant et les Sortilèges {11} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/18/1982

[Met Performance] CID:271010 Parade: An Evening of French Music Theater {12} Parade {12} Les Mamelles de Tirésias {12} L’Enfant et les Sortilèges {12} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/23/1982

[Met Performance] CID:271050 Parade: An Evening of French Music Theater {13} Parade {13} Les Mamelles de Tirésias {13} L’Enfant et les Sortilèges {13} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/27/1982

[Met Performance] CID:271090 Parade: An Evening of French Music Theater {14} Parade {14} Les Mamelles de Tirésias {14} L’Enfant et les Sortilèges {14} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/31/1982

[Met Performance] CID:271140 Parade: An Evening of French Music Theater {15} Parade {15} Les Mamelles de Tirésias {15} L’Enfant et les Sortilèges {15} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/5/1983

[Met Performance] CID:271160 Parade : An Evening of French Music Theater{16} Parade {16} Les Mamelles de Tirésias {16} L’Enfant et les Sortilèges {16} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/7/1983 Debut: Lucille Beer

[Met Performance] CID:302670 New Production Semiramide {10} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/30/1990 Debuts: Lella Cuberli, Youngok Shin, Chris Merritt Review

[Met Performance] CID:302700 Semiramide {11} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/3/1990

[Met Performance] CID:302850 Semiramide {15} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/18/1990

[Met Performance] CID:302920 Semiramide {17} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/26/1990 Review

[Met Performance] CID:302950 Semiramide {18} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/29/1990 Broadcast

[Met Performance] CID:303830 I Puritani {30} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/26/1991

[Met Performance] CID:303870  Opera News 1 Opera News 2 I Puritani {31} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/30/1991 Broadcast

[Met Performance] CID:303910 I Puritani {32} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/3/1991

[Met Performance] CID:303950 I Puritani {33} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/6/1991 Debut: Herbert Perry

[Met Performance] CID:304070 I Puritani {36} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/18/1991 Debut: Martile Rowland

[Met Performance] CID:328160 Rusalka {10} Metropolitan Opera House; 05/3/1997 Debut: Laurie Feldman

[Met Performance] CID:328200 Rusalka {11} Metropolitan Opera House; 05/7/1997

[Met Performance] CID:328230 Rusalka {12} Metropolitan Opera House; 05/10/1997

[Met Performance] CID:351109  Kát’a Kabanová {15} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/17/2004 Debuts: Jirí Belohlávek, Jorma Silvasti

[Met Performance] CID:351113 Kát’a Kabanová {16} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/21/2004

[Met Performance] CID:351117 Opera News 1 Opera News 2 Kát’a Kabanová {17} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/25/2004 Broadcast

[Met Performance] CID:351120 Kát’a Kabanová {18} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/29/2004

[Met Performance] CID:351123 Kát’a Kabanová {19} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/01/2005

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