Julien Robbins

Julien Robbins, Bass-baritone, critically acclaimed for his rich and powerful vocal resources, has performed across the United States and throughout Europe, and has returned to the Metropolitan Opera every season since his debut there in 1979. Highlights for season 1999/2000 with the Metropolitan Opera included La Cenerentola, La Bohème, Giulio Cesare and Lucia di Lammermoor. With the Baltimore Opera, he sung six performances of Ashby and Jake Wallace in La Fanciulla del West. He also performed the Verdi Requiem with the National Chorale.

In past seasons, Mr. Robbins has also appeared with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Washington Opera, the Florida Grand Opera and the opera companies of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, San Diego and Birmingham. International opera credits include L'Opera de Nice, La Scala, the Deutsche Staatsoper, the Opera de Monte Carlo and Hamburg Staatsoper. Julien Robbins is equally active on the concert stage, having appeared with the Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia under James Levine, and with the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta. He has appeared with Musica Sacra at Lincoln Center for performances of the Messiah and Mass in B Minor, at the Mostly Mozart Festival in Mozart's Mass in C, and at the Waterloo Festival for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Mr. Robbins has recorded Beethoven's Choral Fantasy with the Boston Symphony on Telarc, La Traviata for Deutsche Grammophon with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Salomé for Sony Classical with Berlin Philharmonic.