Chris Merritt

Quick Facts

Full Name	Chris Merritt
Occupation	Opera Singer
Date Of Birth	Sep 27, 1952(1952-09-27)
Age	72
Birthplace	Oklahoma City
Country	United States
Birth City	Oklahoma
Horoscope	Libra

Chris Merritt Biography

Chris Merritt is one of the most popular and richest Opera Singer who was born on September 27, 1952 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.

Finally, Merritt began singing lessons in the preparatory department of Oklahoma City University at 15 years of age. His teacher was Florence Gillam Birdwell. By this time, he had already changed piano studies to Oklahoma City University (OCU) preparatory department with Dr. Robert Laughlin. It was also at OCU where he made his first operatic appearance in Douglas Moore’s The Ballad of Baby Doe, at the age of 17, in a university production and singing alongside university-school-mate Leona Mitchell. At 18 and 19 years of age he performed and studied at Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony, Arkansas, under direction of Dr. Isaac van Grove. At age 20 he was accepted at the Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts in Virginia as fellowship artist where he studied and coached with John Moriarti, Benton Hess and Rhoda Levine. At age 21 he was accepted into the summer season “Apprentice Program for Singers” at The Santa Fe Opera. During his college career at Oklahoma City University from 1970 to 1978, Merritt’s voice teachers were Inez Lunsford Silberg and Florence Gillam Birdwell. Later, he also received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from that institution.

Merritt made his professional debut at The Santa Fe Opera in 1975, as Dr. Caius in Verdi’s Falstaff, singing with Thomas Stewart in the title role in a production by Colin Graham and conducted by Edo de Waart. However, he also appeared in the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Regional Auditions National Finals Concert on March 28, 1976.

Chris Merritt Net Worth

Chris Merritt is one of the richest Opera Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chris Merritt 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Chris Merritt (born September 27, 1952 in Oklahoma City) is an American tenor.

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Merritt had five important debuts in 1985: he was heard at London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Giacomo/Uberto in Rossini’s La donna del lago, then at the Hamburg State Opera as Idreno in Rossini’s Semiramide. His Italian debut was at Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival, singing the role of Paolo Erisso in the composer’s Maometto II in a production by Pier Luigi Pizzi. Shortly after, he performed the role of Conte Libenskof in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims in a production at Milan’s La Scala directed by Luca Roconi and conducted by Claudio Abbado. Finally, Merritt made his debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Percy in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, singing with Joan Sutherland in a production directed by Lotfi Mansouri with Richard Bonynge conducting.

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Elsewhere, he sang again at Covent Garden as Idreno in Semiramide, Arnold in Guillaume Tell (in 1990 and in 1992), in Henze’s Boulevard Solitude and in Katja Kabanova. At the San Francisco Opera he sang in Maometto II (debut in 1988), and also in the role of Arnold in Guillaume Tell in 1992 and 1997/98 season, in Rossini’s Otello, in I vespri siciliani, and in St. Francis d’Assise and Doktor Faust. On August 6, 1993, he sang the title role in Sigurd at the sole performance of that rarely performed opera at the Festival Montpellier. Both in 1988 and in 1989 he appeared in the opening productions of La Scala’s opera season, with Guillaume Tell and I Vespri Siciliani Both were conducted by Riccardo Muti. He then returned as Rodrigo in La donna del lago, also conducted by Muti. At the Opéra de Paris, he returned to sing the title role of Benvenuto Cellini, appeared in two different seasons as Herod in Salome, as Le Lepreux in Olivier Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise, and as Eleazar in La Juive.