He won the 2011 Carlos Kleiber Prize,[1] bestowed by the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, with Kent Nagano and Mariss Jansons among the judges.
His accomplishments to date include Gluck's Alceste at Stuttgart in 2006 and Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Amsterdam in 2008, both of which have been released on DVD.
[2][3] In orchestral music, Carydis is noted for his reading of Falla's complete Three-Cornered Hat ballet and for Rimsky-Korsakov's coloristic Scheherazade.
In Munich, Carydis conducted an acclaimed new staging[7] in 2011 of Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann starring Diana Damrau and Rolando Villazón.
The conductor makes his début at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2013[8] and conducted Wagner's Tristan und Isolde for Frankfurt Opera in 2014, as well as concerts[9] with the Bavarian State Orchestra.