“Find anything exciting happening in period opera in the UK and Curnyn will be involved, whether it’s conducting at the Wanamaker or ENO, recording Handel or directing his own projects.”
The Spectator
Christian founded the Early Opera Company in 1994 with whom he has given notable performances throughout the UK and abroad, along with multiple award-winning recordings for Chandos.
Christian is a regular at English National Opera, where he has conducted Handel’s Partenope, Julius Caesar and Rodelinda, Rameau’s Castor and Pollux, Charpentier’s Medee and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. For the Royal Opera he has conducted Cavalli’s L’Ormindo, Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo, Monteverdi’s Ulysses and Handel’s Solomon in concert. Opera credits include acclaimed productions for Scottish Opera, Garsington Opera, Opera North as well as further afield with Komische Oper Berlin, Oper Frankfurt, Landestheater Salzburg, Oper Stuttgart, Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos, Halle Handel Festival, as well as Opera Australia, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera and Chicago Opera Theater.
On the concert platform engagements have included concerts with the Academy of Ancient Music, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bournemouth Symphony, English Concert, Essen Philharmoniker, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Hallé, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Swedish Chamber, Stavanger Symphony, and Ulster Orchestras, as well as further afield with the Tasmania, West Australia, and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras.
Recent and forthcoming highlights include a stream of Handel’s Messiah with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Concerts with Budapest Festival Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC NOW, and Komische Oper Berlin, Acis and Galatea with his Early Opera Company for the Buxton Festival, a new production of Handel’s Orlando for the 100th Halle Handel Festival, Semele with AKAMUS and Opera Collective and a return to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden for a new production. With the Early Opera Company, he will conduct concerts at the Bruges Concertgebouw and Eindhoven Muziekgebouw.
Christian is represented by Nicki Wenham at Rayfield Allied.
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