Christopher James
Ray

Christopher James Ray

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Opera San José

Resident Conductor, 2

San Francisco Symphony

Assistant Conductor , 1

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Biography

Christopher James Ray is a conductor with a diverse background in both traditional and contemporary operatic works. He is currently Resident Conductor at Opera San José and an assistant with the San Francisco Symphony. In 2017, Christopher joined the music staff of the renowned Bayreuth Festival where he worked on productions of Der Fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin, Götterdämmerung, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Parsifal. In the 2020-21 season, Christopher will conduct performances of Opera San José’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Carmen, Salome, and West Side Story. Recent performances at Opera San José have included Il trovatore, Hansel and Gretel, Die Fledermaus, Heggie/Scheer’s Moby Dick, and Pagliacci. Christopher made his professional conducting debut leading a double bill of Gianni Schicchi and Pagliacci with the Mississippi Opera in 2014. Later that year he conducted performances of Cosi fan tutte, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi with Opera in the Ozarks. Additional conducting credits include Copland’s The Tender Land, Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte Handel’s Alcina, Nico Muhly’s Dark Sisters, Heggie's Three Decembers, Glass's In the Penal Colony, and Britten's The Beggar's Opera. As assistant conductor, Christopher has worked with the Salzburg State Theater (Brokeback Mountain), North Carolina Opera (La bohème, Così fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro), Sarasota Opera (Le nozze di Figaro, Don Carlos), Opera on the James (Carmen), Opera on the Avalon (Die Zauberflöte), Syracuse Opera (Die Fledermaus) as well as the Memphis Symphony and Portland (ME) Symphon

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"The music is the most important thing. We are all people who have to do with music, and we have to be so grateful. "

— Christian Thielemann

Christopher James
Ray

Christopher James
Ray

Biography