UPDATES
cHRIS Just joined oPERA mODESTO IN sEPTEMBER FOR ANOTHER rOLE DEBUT AS cOUNT aLMAVIVA IN THE bARBER OF sEVILLE!
Chris performed as the dying swan in Orff’s Carmina Burana as a part of I Cantori Di Carmel’s summer season!
cHRIS DEBUTS ANOTHER ROSSINI ROLE WITH uTAH oPERA AS pRINCE rAMIRO IN THEIR pRODUCTION OF lA cENERENTOLA this winter
“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 1930s. Chris, however, was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he grew up surrounded by arias and classical music. Opera has been part of his life almost from the beginning.
At 11, Chris found his voice as a boy soprano with the Tulsa Boy Singers. In 2004, Carol Crawford recruited boys from the choir for Tulsa Opera’s production of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. The following year, Chris understudied the Little Prince in The Little Prince, and in 2007 sang Shepherd Boy in Tosca. He appeared in the chorus of nearly every Tulsa Opera production until college. The Tulsa Youth Opera training program and Kostis Protopapas continued to foster his development.
Chris enrolled at Oklahoma City University in 2011, performing leading roles including George Gibbs in Our Town, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, and Le Petit Vieillard in L'enfant et les sortilèges. During summers, he continued his training through young artist programs, performing 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 in early 2016. That year, he received a district Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
In 2017, Chris attended Seagle Music Colony, starring as Horatio in the piano world premiere of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Herschel Garfein. In 2018, he joined Central City Opera as a Studio Artist and starred as Damon in Handel’s Acis and Galatea, receiving the 2018 Iris Henwood Richards Memorial Award. In 2019, he returned to Tulsa Opera for Don Giovanni and worked with Tulsa Youth Opera. He also returned to Central City Opera as an Apprentice Artist, covering Squeak and the Novice in Billy Budd.
Chris then moved to London to study at the Royal College of Music. When the pandemic brought him back to America, he became a Filstrup Young Artist with Tulsa Opera for their 20/21 season, playing Matteo Borsa and covering the Duke in Rigoletto in the first live opera of the pandemic in America, alongside Bass Morris Robinson as Sparafucile.
Returning to London for his final year at the Royal College of Music, Chris covered The Witch in Hansel und Gretel and performed Bill in Jonathan Dove’s Flight. In April 2022, he made his professional European debut as Ernesto in Don Pasquale with Hurn Court Opera. He graduated from the Royal College of Music that summer with First Class Honours.
Chris then performed Ferrando in Così fan tutte in Vienna before joining Wexford Festival Opera’s 2022 season as Dudo in Dvořák’s Armida, sung in Czech, and Tito in the world premiere of The Masters, with famed Irish author Colm Tóibín as librettist. He returned to Wexford in 2023 as Tonio in La fille du régiment.
In 2024, Chris returned to Central City Opera for the third time as Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance, also stepping in to cover Sam Kaplan in Street Scene. He received the McGlone Award from Central City Opera’s board of directors before performing Tonio in La fille du régiment with Livermore Valley Opera. In February 2025, he debuted Elvino in Bellini’s La Sonnambula with West Bay Opera, sung in the original higher keys.
In May 2025, Chris returned as Tonio in Opera Santa Barbara’s La fille du régiment, receiving an INDY Award from the Santa Barbara Independent—the “SHOW MUST GO ON” award—after breaking his arm during opening night and finishing the performance without the audience knowing. He even performed an encore of “Ah mes amis” less than 10 minutes later.
Last July, Chris traveled to Italy for the Macerata Opera Festival through the Andrea Bocelli Foundation, participating in a week-long masterclass with Serena Gamberoni and Maestro Davide Cavalli and performing in the final concert at the Sferisterio in Macerata. Last fall, he appeared as Nemorino in Opera Modesto’s Elixir of Love before returning to Tulsa Opera as Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance.
Chris performed the Dying Swan in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana as a part of I Cantori di Carmel’s Summer season. This fall Chris returned to Opera Modesto to debut the role of Count Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. In the winter, Chris has another Rossini role debut with Utah Opera as Prince Ramiro in La Cenerentola. Immediately following that production, Chris has two back-to-back productions of Il barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Santa Barbara into Piedmont Opera.
“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 nearly 90 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. Chris’s first opera, and the show that made Chris fall in love with opera.
