Julien Robbins
Bass-Baritone
American bass-baritone Julien Robbins has sung more than 50 roles at The Metropolitan Opera in 24 consecutive seasons since his 1979 debut. Internationally, the Pennsylvania native has appeared in productions of Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, La Bohème, Aida, Carmen, Trouble in Tahiti, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Otello, Le Comte Ory and Un Ballo in Maschera with such companies as Milan's Teatro alla Scala, Berlin's Deutsche Oper, Hamburg Staatsoper, The Lisbon Opera, L'Opéra de Nice, Opera de Monte Carlo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil and at the Glyndebourne Festival. A frequent guest of such U.S. companies as San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Florida Grand Opera, The Washington Opera, at Spoleto Festival USA, and the opera companies of San Diego, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, he has made such concert appearances as I Capuleti ed i Montecchi with Opera Orchestra of New York, the Beethoven Choral Fantasy (Seiji Osawa, conductor) and Romeo et Juliette by Berlioz (James Levine, conductor) with The Boston Symphony, the Beethoven Symphony No. Nine with The Israel Philharmonic (Zubin Mehta, conductor), The Messiah as well as the Bach Mass in B Minor with New York's Musica Sacra, and Mozart's Mass in C at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, among others. Mr. Robbins has recorded the Beethoven Choral Fantasy with Telarca Traviata with Deutsche Grammophon and Salome for Sony Classical.