During the 2024-2025 season, John Moore makes his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut as Dillon in Mazzoli and Vavrek's The Listeners, and returns to Opera Philadelphia for performances of the same role. He also debuts with Washington National Opera as Steve Jobs in The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, a role he has sung across the United States to great acclaim. With Odyssey Opera and Boston Modern Orchestra Project, he will perform and record the role of Kinesias in Mark Adamo's Lysistrata. He joins the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra twice this season, for concerts of Handel’s Messiah followed later by performances of Poulenc’s Le bal masqué. Future seasons include his debut with the Finnish National Opera.
Moore’s 2023-24 season began with San Francisco Opera, bowing as Steve Jobs in The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs. In addition, he performed as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Pittsburgh Opera, the title role of Sweeney Todd with Dayton Opera, and joined Seattle Opera for the company's 60th Anniversary Gala concert.
The baritone’s 2022-2023 season included a variety of debut roles and returns to several favorites. At Seattle Opera, he debuted the role of Rasheed in the operatic adaptation of A Thousand Splendid Suns. He bowed as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia with New Orleans Opera, and joined Utah Opera in a return to the role of Steve Jobs. On the concert stage, he collaborated with the Jacksonville Symphony for Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem and Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden gesellen, and performed Handel’s Messiah with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. In recital, he appeared with soprano Joélle Harvey and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.
Selected highlights of recent seasons include: Conte Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with New Zealand Opera and San Diego Opera; Frank Lloyd Wright in Arizona Opera’s production of Shining Brow; The Philadelphia Orchestra’s presentation of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges, conducted by Stéphane Denève; the rescheduled tour of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs with Austin Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and Atlanta Opera, and Des Moines Metro Opera as Jess in the world premiere of Kristin Kuster’s A Thousand Acres.