Christopher Maltman
Christopher Maltman (born 6 February 1970) is a British operatic baritone. Christopher Maltman was born in Cleethorpes and grew up mostly in Lincolnshire, attending King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth, then Warwick University where he received a degree in Biochemistry and subsequently studied music at the Royal Academy of Music. While a student he won the Great Elm Festival Vocal Award (now the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards) as well as the Anna Instone Award, then curated by Capital Radio. In 1997 he received the Lieder Prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. He made his  debut with The Royal Opera in 1997 and has since sung over fifteen principal roles there including Don Carlo di Vargas, "La forza del destino", Conte di Luna, "Il trovatore", Enrico, "Lucia di Lammermoor", Papageno, "Die Zauberflöte", Count Almaviva, "Le nozze di Figaro", Guglielmo, "Così fan tutte", the Forester, "The Cunning Little Vixen", and Lescaut, Puccini's "Manon Lescaut". He currently enjoys an international career in the great opera houses of Europe and North America specialising in Italian dramatic baritone repertoire, most especially the role of Rigoletto. In 2015 he separated from his first wife, Leigh Woolf and was divorced  in 2019. The same year he became engaged to the French conductor and pianist, Audrey Saint-Gil. He has three sons from his first marriage, Maximus (b. 2002), Ptolemy (b. 2006) and Octavian (b. 2009).