Christopher Moulds

Christopher Moulds is an English conductor of classical and baroque operas.

Biography Early life and first operas Moulds was born in Halifax, England where he studied piano with Fanny Waterman. From 1991 to 1995, he was an English National Opera member and then from 1994 to 1998, he became chorus master at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera where he conducted The Marriage of Figaro . Later, at the Glyndebourne Touring Opera he conducted such operas as Harrison Birtwistle's The Last Supper, La Clemenza di Tito, and Carmen.

2002-2007 On 5 March 2002, Christopher Moulds at the Bavarian State Opera conducted Claudio Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria and in 2003, he made his first appearance at the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam, conducting Handel's Samson with Concerto Köln. In 2004, he recorded Glück's L'Innocenza Guistificata with Cappella Coloniensis which was released on the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi label. In 2006, he conducted Ulisse and the same year worked along with Vienna Philharmonic to conduct La Clemenza di Tito which was presented at the Salzburg Festival. The next year, he became a conductor of George Frideric Handel's Alcina which was performed at the Bayerische Staatsoper and also conducted Hercules He made his debut at the Teatro Real, Madrid with productions of Handel's Alcina. During 2015-2016, Moulds conducted a series of performances of Handel's Rodelinda in Russia at the Bolshoi Theatre.

Moulds appeared at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (June 2016) and at the Rome Opera House (September 2016) conducting Sasha Waltz' production of Handel's Dido & Aeneas. In 2017, he conducted a series of performances at the Semperoper, Dresden of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail.

Recent performances have included opera La Calisto by Francesco Cavalli at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (March–April 2018) and Mozart's Don Giovanni at Den Norske Opera in Oslo (May–June 2018). In one of his latest projects, he was working with a youth choir and the symphony orchestra of Basel (oratorio 'Elija' by Mendelssohn Bartholdy, October 2018).