Tenor Christopher Bozeka is quickly becoming recognized for his “expressively captivating” performances, as well as his “beautiful, piercing tone” (San Francisco Chronicle). In the 2024-2025 season, he makes his role debut with the Metropolitan Opera as the Kill Chain: Mission Coordinator in Grounded, and covers The Hunchback in Die Frau ohne Schatten and Don Basilio in Le nozze di Figaro. He also returns to Opera Las Vegas singing Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, a role he has performed with Tri-Cities Opera/Syracuse Opera, Opera Delaware/Baltimore Concert Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera. Critics have described his Almaviva as displaying a “fine technique and expert agility aligned to a pleasant timbre” (Opera News). Next summer, Mr. Bozeka will take his Rossinian ability to new heights in his role debut as Elvino in La sonnambula with Teatro Nuovo.

 

Mr. Bozeka recently made his solo stage debut at the Metropolitan Opera going on as Abdallo in Nabucco, for which a featured performance was broadcast live on Sirius XM radio. In recent seasons, he has also joined the Metropolitan Opera for the workshop of Grounded and covered the Second Priest in The Magic Flute.  He made his company debut going on for Pit Singer – Tenor 2 in Dean’s Hamlet in 2022, and first joined the roster covering Triquet in Eugene Onegin.

 

In 2023, Mr. Bozeka made his house and role debut singing Duca di Mantova in Rigoletto with Holy City Arts & Lyric Opera, and sang the Fourth Jew in Salome with both the Houston Symphony and the Houston Grand Opera. Regarding his summer 2023 company and role debut with Central City Opera in the herculean role of Rodrigo in Rossini’s Otello, The Denver Post writes that "Christopher Bozeka is an amazingly agile singer, repeatedly nailing the many stratospheric notes required by Rossini and the almost endless rapid vocal runs." Recent seasons include a company debut as Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore with Livermore Valley Opera and a role debut as the title role in Le comte Ory with Opera Southwest, after covering the same role with Lyric Opera of Chicago.

 

On the concert stage this season, Mr. Bozeka will sing as the tenor soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and in The Prisoner by Karim Al-Zand with Musiqa in Houston, TX.  Mr. Bozeka most recently joined the New York Philharmonic covering Otto Bader and Josef Bader in Aaron Zigman’s Émigré in the spring of 2024. In recent seasons, he appeared in recital with the First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta and the Il Cenacolo Italian Club, performed as the tenor soloist in the world premiere of Two Streams with the Houston Chamber Choir and Kinetic Orchestra, joined Opera Southwest for a New Year’s Eve gala, and was the tenor soloist in Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle with Opera Outdoors Houston, as well as holiday concerts with Houston Grand Opera. During the pandemic, he appeared in a virtual broadcast as a soloist in Bach repertoire with Ars Lyrica Houston. Past concert engagements include Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (New Albany Symphony Orchestra), Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (Kinetic Ensemble), and a Mozart Opera Gala (Musical Bridges Around the World San Antonio).

 

Other notable roles include Ernesto in Don Pasquale (Opera Las Vegas), Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore (Livermore Valley Opera, Opera Las Vegas, Houston Grand Opera), and starring in a series of Rossini one-acts as Dorville in La scala di seta, Bertrando in L’inganno felice, and Florville in Il Signor Bruschino (Sarasota Opera). He also has sung Nadir in Bottesini’s Ali Baba (Opera Southwest), Don Gaspar in La favorite and the Messenger in Aida (Houston Grand Opera), Adolfo Pirelli in Sweeney Todd (Wolf Trap Opera, Atlanta Opera), Satyavan in Holst’s Savtiri and Le Prince Charmant in Viardot’s Cendrillon (Wolf Trap Opera), Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (Opera Theatre of St. Louis), Evandro in Mayr's Medea in Corinto (Teatro Nuovo), Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail  (Houston Grand Opera, Opera Project Columbus), and Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi (Opera Project Columbus, Merola Opera). 

 

During his association with the Houston Grand Opera Studio, Mr. Bozeka performed in Tosca as Spoletta, Carlisle Floyd’s new opera Prince of Players as Male Emilia, Le nozze di Figaro as Don Curzio, and The Little Prince as the Drunkard/Lamplight. He also joined Castleton Festival’s production of Madame Butterfly as Pinkerton.

Mr. Bozeka is a previous first prize winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council District Auditions in Ohio and Houston, and a second-place winner in Houston’s Eleanor McCollum Competition. He received his master’s degree at the University of Cincinnati College–Conservatory of Music where he appeared as Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, and the Narrator in Owen Wingrave.