Christopher Hillier’s 2015/2016 appearances for Opera Australia include Zurga in a new

production of The Pearl Fishers, Belcore in L’elisir d’amore and The Count in their touring

production of Le nozze di Figaro.

Christopher graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium with a Bachelor of Music with First

Class Honours in 2006 and the National Opera Studio (London) in 2007.

He is the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, most notably the Opera

Foundation Covent Garden Scholarship in 2006.

He has a wide and varied concert repertoire including Handel’s Messiah, Orff’s Carmina

Burana, Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem and Haydn’s Mass in Time of War. He has

performed regularly for Sydney Philharmonia, Art Song NSW, the Joan Sutherland Society

of Sydney and many other societies in the UK, Italy, Germany and Australia. Most recently,

he sang the baritone solos in the Requiems of Fauré and Duruflé for the New Zealand

Chamber Choir in Wellington. In 2015, he took the role of The Celebrant in Bernstein’s Mass

at the Sydney Opera House – for the 100 th Anniversary of the Sydney Conservatorium of

Music.

2010/2011 appearances included Brett Dean’s Bliss for Opera Australia in Sydney,

Melbourne and at the Edinburgh festival, Monteverdi Vespers for Sydney Philharmonia and

a Gala Concert with the SBS Youth Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House. He also sang

Germont in La traviata for OA’s national touring production, performed Fiorello in The

Barber of Seville and appeared in concert in Beijing.

He joined the principal ensemble of Opera Australia in 2012 – singing Zurga in The Pearl

Fishers, Jupiter in Orpheus in the Underworld, Christian in Un ballo in maschera and the

title role in Don Giovanni for OA’s touring production; he also made his international stage

debut as Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale in Tokyo, Japan.