In a career spanning 38 years the British tenor Christopher Gillett has sung in opera houses across the globe and with many of the world’s finest orchestras and conductors. In the last few years he has sung at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Los Angeles Opera, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Netherlands Opera, the Teatro alla Scala, the Theater an der Wien, the Aldeburgh Festival, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Peking Festival, the Teatro Real in Madrid, and at the Glyndebourne Festival, with conductors such as Sir Colin Davis, Sir Andrew Davis, Plácido Domingo, John Nelson, Oliver Knussen, Mikko Franck and Robin Ticciati. Christopher Gillett has given many world premières, including works by Menotti, Tan Dun, Alexander Goehr and Louis Andriesson. He has written two critically acclaimed books, Who’s My Bottom? and Scraping The Bottom and is a regular contributor to the German magazine Opernwelt.