Christian Van Horn is an American operatic bass-baritone and has appeared with many of the world's most prestigious opera companies, including San Francisco Opera, The Metropolitan Opera Lyric Opera of Chicago, Bayerische Staatsoper, Salzburg Festival, Los Angeles Opera, The Grand Th��tre du Gen�ve, and Canadian Opera Company. His roles include the title role in Le nozze di Figaro, the Four Villains in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Mephistopheles in Faust, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Banquo in Macbeth, Colline in La Boh�me, and Claudio in Aggrippina. Van Horn has also appeared as a concert soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic among others. 

January 1st, 1978 in (Age 46)