OPERA (* Upcoming)

LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN, Schlémil, Theater Kiel 2027*

ARIADNE AUF NAXOS, Lakai / Harlekin (Cover), Canadian Opera Company 2027*

TANNHÄUSER: Wolfram, Theater Kiel 2026*

DON PASQUALE: Malatesta, Theater Kiel 2026*, 2025

ELISIR D’AMORE: Belcore, Theater Kiel 2026

GIANNI SCHICCHI: Marco, Theater Kiel 2025

LA TRAVIATA: Baron Douphol, Theater Kiel 2025

MADAMA BUTTERFLY: Il commissario imperiale / Yamadori, Canadian Opera Company 2025

DIE FLEDERMAUS: Doktor Falke, Theater Kiel 2024, Saskatoon Opera 2019.

DER ROSENKAVALIER: Faninal, Theater Kiel 2024

DER FREISCHÜTZ: Ottokar, Theater Kiel 2024

BUDDENBROOKS (World premiere): von Trotha (Jump-In),Theater Kiel 2024

LA CENERENTOLA: Dandini, Landestheater Detmold 2025 (Jump-In), Theater Kiel 2024

FALSTAFF: Ford, Theater Kiel 2023

DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE: Papageno, Theater Kiel 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022.

LA BOHÈME: Marcello, Theater Kiel 2023, Canadian Opera Company 2019 (3rd Cast)

MANON LESCAUT: Lescaut, Theater Kiel 2023

IOLANTA: Robert, Theater Kiel 2022

COSÌ FAN TUTTE: Guglielmo, Theater Kiel 2022, (Cover) Canadian Opera Company 2019

OTELLO: Montano, Theater Kiel 2022

LA JUIVE: Albert, Theater Kiel 2022

L’AMOUR DES TOIS ORANGES: Pantalon/Farfarello, Theater Kiel 2021

DAS DSCHUNGELBUCH (World premiere): Gurilla, Theater Kiel 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020

IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Figaro (Cover/Jump-In), Canadian Opera Company 2020

ELEKTRA: Orest's Guardian (Cover), Canadian Opera Company 2019

HADRIAN (World premiere): Sycophantic Senator, Canadian Opera Company 2018

EUGENE ONEGIN: Captain / Eugene Onegin (Cover), Canadian Opera Company 2018

DIDO AND AENEAS: Sailor/ Aeneas (Cover), COC Ensemble Studio 2018

THE NIGHTINGALE AND OTHER SHORT FABLES: 2nd Japanese Envoy/ 1 Bariton (Cover), Canadian Opera Company 2018

RIGOLETTO: Usciere / Marullo (Cover), Canadian Opera Company 2018

ARABELLA: Lamoral (Cover), Canadian Opera Company 2017

CARMEN: Moralès, Brott Music Festival 2017

CONCERT
„WEIHNACHTS ORATORIUM I-III”: Bach, Kieler Knabenchor, 2027*

„AUS DER TIEFEN, RUF ICH HERR ZU DIR, BWV 131“
„NACH DIR, HERR, VERLANGET MICH, BWV 150“: BACH
„NIMM VON UNS HERR, DU TREUER GOTT, BuxWV78“: Buxtehude, Kieler Knabenchor, 2027*

REQUIEM: Fauré, Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, 2026*

„ICH HATTE VIEL BEKÜMMERNIS, BWV 21“ &
„WER NUR DEN LIEBTEN GOTT LÄSST WALTEN, BWV 93“: Bach, Kieler Knabenchor, 2026

DER FEUERREITER: Wolf, Philharmonisches Orchester Kiel Konzert 2024

LIEBESLIEDER WALTZER: Brahms, Philharmonisches Orchester Kiel Konzert 2024

SYMPHONY NR. 9: Beethoven, Philharmoniches Orchester Kiel 2024, 2023

MESSIAH: Händel, Grand Philharmonic Choir 2019

REQUIEM: Fauré, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir 2019

PASSIO: Pärt, Cincinnati Camerata 2015

ST. JOHN PASSION (Cover): Bach, CCM at University of Cincinnati 2014

B MINOR MASS (Cover): Bach, CCM at University of Cincinnati 2013

EDUCATION

Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio 2017–19

University of Cincinnati College – Conservatory of Music Bachelor of Music 2011-2015

Recent Pianists: Maddalena Altieri, Rachel Andrist, Andrea Grant, Simone Lutti, Bettina Rohrbeck, John Spencer IV

Recent Conductors: Stefan Bone, Daniel Carlberg, Francesco Cilluffo, Johannes Debus, Gabriel Feltz (GMD), Speranza Scappucci, Benjamin Reiners (GMD), Constantin Schiffner, Sergi Roca, Keri-Lynn Wilson

Recent Directors: Sam Brown, Julia Burbach, Daniel Karasek, Sarah Kohrs, Luise Kautz, Alexandra Liedtke, Pier Francesco Maestrini, Dirk Schmeding

Awards

Stella Maris International Competition Hapag-Lloyd GmbH 2. Prize Kunstlieder/3. Prize Oratorio 2019

Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio Competition 2. Place 2016

Metropolitan Opera National Council Western Canada Regional Winner 2015

Metropolitan Opera National Council Ohio Region Encouragement Award 2014

Samuel performing as Dr. Malatesta in Oper Kiel’s mounting of BARBE&DOUCET’S Production of Donizetti’s ‘Don Pasquale’ (2025), Photos: Olaf Struck

Repertoire

Samuel Performing as Dandini in Oper Kiel’s “La Cenerentola” (2024), Photos: Olaf Struck