Vassilis Christopoulos is one of Greece’s most renowned conductors, equally at home on the concert podium as in the opera pit. As of September 2023 he is Chief Conductor of Graz Opera, where his first opera productions – Verdi's Macbeth and Rigoletto, Peter Eötvös's Sleepless, Berg's Wozzeck, and Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier – were greeted with critical acclaim. He is especially praised for his sensitive and compelling accompaniment, for extracting a wide, nuanced dynamic range out of the orchestra, for producing a transparent sound as well as “dark, almost Rembrandtesque colours” (Kleine Zeitung).