NEWS
Chris successfully wrapped up his first Bellini role as Elvino in West Bay Opera’s production of La Sonnambula LAST MONTH!
UP next, Chris will take the stage AGAIN as Tonio in La fille du régiment. this time with Opera Santa Barbara the first week of May!
“Mr. Mosz was an audience favorite, not only for his smooth and sweet-voiced lyric singing, but also for his empathetic teddy bear persona. The world will hear more from, and about him, to be sure.”
James Sohre - Opera Today
BIO
Both of Chris’s grandparents on his father’s side were opera singers in Hungary in the 1930’s. Unlike that part of his family, Chris was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He grew up with arias and classical music playing around the house. Opera has almost always been a part of his life.
Chris found his voice as a boy soprano with the Tulsa Boy Singers when he was just 11 years old. In 2004, Carol Crawford recruited boys from the choir for Tulsa Opera’s production of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. The following year, he was the understudy to the Little Prince in The Little Prince. In 2007, Chris sang the role of Shepherd Boy in Tosca. He was in the chorus of almost every Tulsa Opera production until he went to college. The Tulsa Youth Opera training program and Kostis Protopapas continued to foster Chris’s growth as a budding opera singer.
Chris enrolled at Oklahoma City University in 2011, he had many leading roles during his time there such as George Gibbs in Our Town, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, and Le Petit Vieillard in L'enfant et les sortilèges. During the summers, Chris furthered his education and training by attending young artist programs and performing roles like Sam Kaplan in Street Scene, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, and Fenton in Falstaff. He made his professional role debut with Tulsa Opera as The Young Collector in A Streetcar Named Desire at the start of 2016.
That year, Chris was the recipient of a district Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Then in 2017, Chris attended Seagle Music Colony where he starred as Horatio in the piano world premiere of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Herschel Garfein.
The following summer Chris was a part of Central City Opera's 2018 season. He starred as Damon in Handel's Acis and Galatea. He was also a part of the rest of the season, as a Studio Artist. At the end of the festival, Chris was the recipient of the 2018 Iris Henwood Richards Memorial Award.
In 2019, Chris spent time in his hometown working with Tulsa Opera. He was a part of their production of Don Giovanni, and helped with Tulsa Youth Opera to usher in a new wave of singers. During the summer he returned to Central City Opera, this time as an Apprentice Artist, where he covered the roles of Squeak and the Novice in Billy Budd.
Chris then moved to London to study at the Royal College of Music. Part way through his first year, the pandemic brought him back to America where he became a Filstrup Young Artist with Tulsa Opera for their 20/21 season. Chris played the role of Matteo Borsa and covered the Duke in Rigoletto in the first live opera of the pandemic in America. The cast included some true stars of the opera world, with Bass Morris Robinson starring as Sparafulcile.
When the world began moving again, so did Chris. In his final year at the Royal College of Music in London he covered The Witch in Hansel und Gretel, and played the role of Bill in Flight by Jonathan Dove. In April of 2022, Chris made his professional European debut in the role of Ernesto in Don Pasquale as a part of Hurn Court Opera's 2022 season.
Chris graduated from the Royal College of Music with First Class Honours in the summer of 2022. Almost directly after, he headed to Vienna to perform Ferrando in Così fan tutte. Chris then joined Wexford Festival Opera for their 2022 season as Dudo in Dvořák's Armida sung in Czech, and Tito in the world premier of The Masters, with famed Irish author Colm Tóibín as the librettist. He returned to Wexford in 2023 to play the role of Tonio in La fille du régiment.
In the summer of 2024 Chris returned to Central City Opera for the third time to play the role of Frederic in Pirates of Penzance. At the end of the season he received the McGlone Award from Central City Opera's board of directors. After which Chris headed to Livermore Valley Opera to perform the role of Tonio again in La fille du régiment. In February of 2025 he debuted the role of Elvino in Bellini's La Sonnambula with West Bay Opera, sung in the original higher keys.
Chris will be joining the regiment yet again as Tonio this May in Opera Santa Barbara's production of La fille du régiment.
“Chris Mosz’s tenor is so high-set that it seems like he is singing downward on notes above the staff ...”
Michael J. Vaughn - Palo Alto Weekly
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Chris has been in over 80 productions since he began performing in 2004. Find him all the way to the right in the photo below of Tulsa Opera’s production of Pagliacci. This was the show that made Chris fall in love with opera.
