“It was a performance that was at once supportive, unassuming, and richly musical. Perhaps it's no surprise then, that Christopher Allen is being noticed.”
Recipient of The 2017 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award, Christopher Allen is featured in Opera News as "one of the fastest-rising podium stars in North America." He has led acclaimed performances with the Atlanta Symphony, Los Angeles Opera, Opera Philadelphia, English National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Washington National Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Atlanta Opera, and Daegu Opera House in South Korea. As The John L. Magro Resident Conductor for Cincinnati Opera, Mo. Allen has joined the company for three consecutive seasons, in addition to leading the Cincinnati Symphony in the annual...
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“Allen’s sensitive conducting elicited a high degree of poetry and dramatic momentum from the score.”
Opera News
“Pianist Christopher Allen had a wonderful feel for Poulenc's alternating sweetness and acid, and I often wished Darrah had granted him the simple visual quiet of a small white spotlight.”
Peter Dobrin, Philadelphia Inquirer, September 23, 2018 - 'La Voix humaine' at Opera Philadelphia
