Christopher Mooney, baritone
Mr. Mooney has appeared nationally with New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Aspen Opera Theatre, Opera Northeast, Connecticut Grand Opera, State Repertory Opera of New Jersey and the Caramoor Festival. While still a student at Juilliard, Mr. Mooney was chosen to star with Vivica Geneaux in La Cenerentola at the Caramoor Festival, directed by Will Crutchfield, which drew rave reviews in The New York Times. He has shared the stage with such notables as Sherrill Milnes, Jerry Hadley, Jerome Hines, Renee Flemming and Marcello Giordani. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in Opera Orchestra of New York’s production of Lucrezia Borgia. His New York engagements have included a return to Carnegie Hall in Adriana Lecouvreur and singing the role of Polydorus with Sir Charles Mackerras in L’Enfant du Christ.
Locally, he sings with the Virginia Opera, the Virginia Symphony and the Norfolk Chamber Consort, and each year he presents a popular Broadway "pops" event at the Kimball Theatre in Williamsburg to benefit the Williamsburg Youth Orchestras. Recent local appearances have included Samuel in The Pirates of Penzance and Tosca with the Virginia Opera and the Messiah with the Virginia Symphony as well as Puccini’s Messa di Gloria and Dvorak’s Te Deum with the Virginia Symphony and Chorus. This summer Professor Mooney joined the faculty of Operafestival di Roma and revisited the role of Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, with performances held in the Pallazo della Sapienza in Rome, Italy. Mr. Mooney received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and his master’s degree from The Juilliard School. He is a professor of Voice at Christopher Newport University where he co-directs Opera CNU.
