{"id":8,"date":"2013-07-27T22:34:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T22:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophercull.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:17:54","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.christophercull.com\/?page_id=8","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">An alumnus of the National Opera Studio London, Guildhall School of Music, The Royal Irish Academy of Music, and Queen\u2019s University Belfast, Christopher\u2019s Roles include Marcello\u00a0<i>La boh\u00e8me<\/i>\u00a0(Opera Holland Park); Masetto\u00a0<i>Don Giovanni<\/i>\u00a0(NI Opera); Tarquinius\u00a0<i>The Rape of Lucretia<\/i>\u00a0(GSMD); Don Carissimo\u00a0<i>La Dirindina<\/i>\u00a0(NI Opera); Zaretsky\u00a0<i>Eugene Onegin<\/i>\u00a0(Buxton Opera); Pan\u00a0<i>Daphnis et Chlo\u00e9<\/i>\u00a0(NI Opera); Donner\u00a0<i>Das Rheingold<\/i>\u00a0(Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra); Lelio\u00a0<i>Le donne curiose<\/i>\u00a0(GSMD); Valentin<i>\u00a0Faust\u00a0<\/i>(Clonter Opera); Bank Account Billy\u00a0<i>The Rise and the Fall of the City of Mahagonny<\/i>\u00a0(Opera Theatre Company); Le Ge\u00f4lier \/ Javelinot\u00a0<i>Dialogues des Carm\u00e9lites<\/i>\u00a0(Grange Park Opera); Lane\/Merriman\u00a0<i>The Importance of Being Earnest<\/i>\u00a0(NI Opera \/Wide Open Opera); Assassin\/Apparition\u00a0<i>Macbeth<\/i>\u00a0(NI Opera); and Collatinus\u00a0<i>The Rape of Lucretia<\/i>\u00a0(Irish Youth Opera).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A long standing collaborator with the Belfast Ensemble and Composer Conor Mitchell, he has created roles in the\u00a0<i>Headless Soldier<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Abomination\u00a0<\/i>(Lyric Theatre\/Outburst, Abbey Theatre, Queen Elizabeth Hall), and\u00a0<i>MASS\u00a0<\/i>(The Telegraph Building\/Outburst)<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Previous concert engagements include\u00a0<i>Johannes-Passion<\/i>\u00a0(RT\u00c9 National Symphony Orchestra), Walton\u2019s\u00a0<i>Belshazzar\u2019s Feast\u00a0<\/i>(Barbican),\u00a0<i>Elijah<\/i> (Truro Cathedral), <i>Monteverdi Vespers<\/i>\u00a0<i>1610<\/i>\u00a0(Sheffield Oratorio Chorus),\u00a0<i>Ein deutsches Requiem<\/i>\u00a0(The Angmering Chorale),\u00a0<i>Messiah<\/i>\u00a0(Knock Basilica).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Christopher is an Arts Council of Northern Ireland Young Musicians\u2019 Platform Winner, and a former Young Artist with Opera Theatre Company. Christopher has been generously supported by The Girdlers\u2019 Company, The Countess of Munster Musical Trust, The Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust, The Arts Council of Northern Ireland and The Arts Council of Ireland.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Future engagements include Theseus in Britten&#8217;s\u00a0<i>A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream<\/i>\u00a0for Blackwater Valley Opera.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An alumnus of the National Opera Studio London, Guildhall School of Music, The Royal Irish Academy of Music, and Queen\u2019s University Belfast, Christopher\u2019s Roles include Marcello\u00a0La boh\u00e8me\u00a0(Opera Holland Park); Masetto\u00a0Don Giovanni\u00a0(NI Opera); Tarquinius\u00a0The Rape of Lucretia\u00a0(GSMD); Don Carissimo\u00a0La Dirindina\u00a0(NI Opera); Zaretsky\u00a0Eugene Onegin\u00a0(Buxton Opera); Pan\u00a0Daphnis et Chlo\u00e9\u00a0(NI Opera); Donner\u00a0Das Rheingold\u00a0(Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra); Lelio\u00a0Le donne curiose\u00a0(GSMD); Valentin\u00a0Faust\u00a0(Clonter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christophercull.com\/?page_id=8\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biography<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":522,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christophercull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christophercull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christophercull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christophercull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christophercull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/www.christophercull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/www.christophercull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christophercull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christophercull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}