Born in Chile, Christian Senn has lived in Italy since his youth. He trained at the Academy for young singers at Teatro alla Scala, where he studied with Leyla Gencer, Luigi Alva, and Vincenzo Manno.
He has collaborated with prominent conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly, Antonio Pappano, Michele Spotti, Maurizio Benini, Maurizio Barbacini, Carlo Rizzi, Giovanni Antonini, Ottavio Dantone, Fabio Biondi, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, David Parry, Rinaldo Alessandrini, and Ton Koopman, among others, performing at renowned theaters and venues worldwide, including La Scala in Milan, Theater an der Wien, Wiener Konzerthaus, Théâtre du Châtelet and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Palau de la Música in Valencia, Teatro Regio Torino, Teatro del Maggio Musicale, La Fenice, and the Teatro Municipal de Santiago.
In the 2025/2026 season, Christian will appear as Mengotto in Niccolò Piccinni’s La Cecchina under Stefano Montanari at the Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari and as Count Capulet in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at the Rome Opera. He will reunite with René Jacobs for Haydn’s late Masses and for Bach’s St Matthew Passion across Europe. Under the baton of Ottavio Dantone, he will perform Handel’s Orlando (Zoroastro) in a new Pier Luigi Pizzi staging as well as Handel’s Messiah, both for the Ravenna Festival.
He made his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the 2015/16 season with Serse and has returned with L'Orfeo (2023/24).