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Sam Young
Primary Skill:
Baritone
Nationality:
British
Country:
United Kingdom
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Languages (fluent):
English
Experience
Opera
Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Hurn Court Opera
2024
Customs Officer
La bohème (Puccini)
Glyndebourne Tour
2022
Figaro
Le nozze di Figaro (in English) (Mozart)
Heritage Opera
2022
Guglielmo
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
St Bartholomew’s Orchestra, All Saints W.Dulwich
2022
Le Comte Ludorf
La Nonne Sanglante (Gounod)
Gothic Opera
2021
Melchior
Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti)
Opera Anywhere
2021
Marcello
La Bohème (Puccini)
Oxford Opera Company
2020
Mr G
The Hive (Brough)
Hive Opera
2020
Leporello
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Rogue Opera
2020
Sacristan
Tosca (Puccini)
North Wales Opera
2019
Alfio
Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni)
North Wales Opera
2019
Guglielmo
Così fan tutte (in English) (Mozart)
Flat Pack Music
2019
Papageno
Die Zauberflöte (in English) (Mozart)
Opera Anywhere
2019
Moralès
Carmen (Bizet)
Oxford Opera Company
2019
Don Alonzo
Le Cid (Massenet)
Dorset Opera Festival
2018
Coryphée
Le Comte Ory (Rossini)
Dorset Opera Festival
2017
Herald
Macbeth (Verdi)
Dorset Opera Festival
2016
Squire
Thomas and Sally (Arne)
Bath International Music Festival
2016
Moore
The Dragon of Wantley (Lampe)
Bath International Music Festival
2015
Operetta/G&S
Captain Corcoran
HMS Pinafore (Sullivan)
Opera Anywhere
2021
Pirate King
The Pirates of Penzance (Sullivan)
Opera Anywhere
2021
Major Murgatroyd
Patience (Sullivan)
Opera Anywhere
2021
The Mikado
The Mikado (Sullivan)
Opera Anywhere
2020
Chorus
1st Bass Chorus
Dialogue des Carmélites (Poulenc)
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
2023
1st Bass
Peter Grimes (Britten)
English National Opera
2023
1st Bass Chorus
Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
Glyndebourne Tour
2022
1st Bass Chorus
La bohème (Puccini)
Glyndebourne Tour
2022
1st Bass Chorus
The Wreckers (Smyth)
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
2022
1st Bass Chorus
Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
2021
1st Bass Chorus
Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)
Dorset Opera Festival
2019
1st Bass Chorus
Nabucco (Verdi)
Dorset Opera Festival
2019
2nd Tenor Chorus
Die Fledermaus (Strauss, J)
Iford Arts
2019
1st Bass Chorus
Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti)
Bampton Classical Opera
2018
1st Bass Chorus
Le Cid (Massenet)
Dorset Opera Festival
2018
1st Bass Chorus
La bohème (Puccini)
Dorset Opera Festival
2018
2nd Bass Chorus
Dialogues des Carmélites (Poulenc)
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
2018
1st Bass Chorus
Le Comte Ory (Rossini)
Dorset Opera Festival
2017
1st Bass Chorus
Faust (Gounod)
Dorset Opera Festival
2017
1st Bass Chorus
Macbeth (Verdi)
Dorset Opera Festival
2016
1st Bass Chorus
Eugene Onegin (in English) (Tchaikovsky)
Dorset Opera Festival
2016
Oratorio/Concerts
Bass Chorus
Messiah (Handel)
Philharmonic Chorus/Royal Albert Hall
2020
Soloist
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Mahler)
Opera in the City Festival / Time Zone Theatre Ltd
2019
Bass Soloist
Messiah (Handel)
Bampton Classical Opera
2019
Soloist
Downton Abbey Live in Concert (John Lunn, Haydn Wood, Nat D. Ayer)
KKL Luzern/City Light Concerts
2019
Baritone Soloist
Ein Deutches Requiem (Brahms)
Bath Camerata, Piano 4Hands, Malmesbury Abbey
2020
Soloist
Downton Abbey Live in Concert (John Lunn, Haydn Wood, Nat D. Ayer)
Cuffe & Taylor, Big Screen Live, Highclere Castle
2019
Jesus/bass soloist
St John’s Passion (Bach)
Malmesbury Abbey, Malmesbury, UK
2019
Soloist
Ein Deutsches Requiem (Brahms)
The Guard's Chapel, Westminster, London, UK
2019
Soloist
Songs at Six - En chantant des Chansons (various composers)
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
2018
Haman
Esther (Handel)
St Alphege Church, Greenwich, London, UK
2018
Soloist
Te Deum (Featherstone)
Sevenoaks Festival, Sevenoaks, UK
2017
Soloist
Dixit Dominus (Handel)
Wells Cathedral, Wells, UK
2016
Soloist
Violetta's Party (various composers)
Iford Arts
2015
Choral
1st Bass
Requiem (Mozart)
Glyndebourne Festival Opera Tour
2022
1st Bass
Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)
Philharmonia Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra
2020
2nd Bass Chorus
Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)
Philharmonia Chorus/Orchestre National de Lille
2019
1st Bass Chorus
L’enfance du Christ (Berlioz)
Britten Sinfonia Voices/Hallé/BBC Proms
2019
1st Bass Chorus
Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
Britten Sinfonia Voice/Britten Sinfonia
2019
1st Bass Chorus
Messa di Reqiuem (Verdi)
Philharmonia Chorus/BBC Concert Orchestra
2019
Film/TV
Male singer (soundtrack)
Urban Myths (S3 Ep3: Bleak House Guest) (music by Rebecca Dale)
Sky Arts
2019
Bass chorus
Lucy Worsely: Elizabeth I’s Battle for God’s Music (music by Roderick Williams)
BBC4
2017
Discography
1st Bass Chorus
Bath Camerata: The Passsing of the Year (Todd, WIlliams, McDowall, Watkins, Dove etc.)
SOMM Recordings
2019
Bass soloist/chorus
Te Deum (Featherstone)
John Featherstone
2017
Covered Covered & Performed Scenes Premiere of New Work Concert COVID-cancelled
Awards
Young Artist Award, Strand International Festival of Song. (2023)
Winner, Bath Spa University Classical Performance Award (2014)
Competitions
Winner, Chartered Surveyor’s Vocal Prize (2018)
Finalist, Dean & Chadlington Singing Competition (2015)
Education
Advance Certificate
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
2017–2018
MMus Performance
Bath Spa University
2014–2015
BA (Hons) Music
Bath Spa University
2011–2014