Enjoying strong affiliations with opera houses across Europe, Christopher Moulds commands a repertoire ranging from Monteverdi, Handel, and Mozart to Humperdinck, Britten and Birtwistle.
This season, Moulds leads major productions including Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Staatsoper Berlin, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, and new productions of Handel’s Orlando with both the Opéra de Lausanne and Longborough Festival Opera. Last season, he conducted Die Zauberflöte in Essen, Handel’s Ariodante at Opéra national du Rhin and Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Bayerische Staatsoper.
Recent highlights include a return to San Francisco Opera for Handel’s Partenope and Così fan tutte at the Opernhaus Zürich. He frequently performed in Moscow, winning the prestigious Golden Mask Award for Best Conductor in 2021 for his performances of Dido and Aeneas at the Bolshoi Theatre and has also appeared regularly at Staatsoper Berlin with repertoire including La finta giardiniera, Hänsel und Gretel and The Turn of the Screw, and at Staatsoper Stuttgart with works including Le nozze di Figaro and Iphigenie en Tauride. Other highlights include conducting La clemenza di Tito with the Wiener Philharmoniker at the Salzburg Festival.