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Sam Young

Primary Skill:

Baritone

Nationality:

British

Country:

United Kingdom

Languages (fluent):

English

Opera

Aeneas
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
Longborough Festival Opera
2025
Bartolo
Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini)
Longborough Festival Opera
2025
Marcello​
La bohème (Puccini)
Devon Opera
2025
Belcore/Dulcamara
The Implausable Potions of Dr Dulcamara (Donizetti)
Playground Opera/Longborough Opera Festival
2025
Sergeant
La bohème (Puccini)
Longborough Opera Festival
2024
Moralès/Escamillo
Carmen (Bizet)
Rogue Opera
2024
Customs Officer
La bohème (Puccini)
Glyndebourne Tour
2022
Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Hurn Court Opera
2024
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

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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

British baritone Sam Young has been praised for his warm, resonant voice and powerful stage presence. He is currently a Young Artist with Opera Prelude for 2024/2025, and was previously an Emerging Artist with Longborough Festival Opera. In 2023, he was recipient of the Young Artist Award in conjunction with the Strand International Festival of Song.

A versatile performer across different repertoire, Sam’s recent stage highlights for 2025 include his debut as Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas, Bartolo cover in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Longborough Festival Opera) and Marcello in La bohème (Devon Opera). He also performed Belcore/Dulcamara in Longborough/Playground Opera’s touring production of The Implausible Potions of Dr Dulcamara (L'elisir d'amore).

Previous roles include the title role in Don Giovanni (Hurn Court Opera), Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro (Hewlett Opera Company; Heritage Opera), Sergeant in La bohème (Longborough Festival Opera), Escamillo in Carmen Reimagined (Rogue Opera), Guglielmo in Così fan tutte (St Bartholomew's Orchestra), Moralès in Carmen (Oxford Opera), Leporello in Don Giovanni (Rogue Opera). In 2021, Sam originated the role Le Comte Ludorf in the UK premiere of Gounod’s La Nonne Sanglante (Gothic Opera) which won the Off-West End award for Best Opera Production in 2022. He has also been a member of the chorus with companies including English National Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera/Tour, where he covered the Customs Officer in La bohème.

In concert, Sam has appeared throughout the UK and in Europe. In 2025, he made his debut at Bechstein Hall, London. His solo concert and oratorio repertoire include the title role in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Jesus in Bach’s St John’s Passion; Haman in Handel’s Esther, soloist in Handel’s Messiah, and other major works including Mozart’s Requiem; Orff’s Carmina Burana, Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem, and Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Opera in the City Festival).

in 2019, Sam performed as part of Downton Abbey Live in 2019 with the Chamber Orchestra of London at Highclere Castle, and again with the City Lights Symphony Orchestra at KKL Luzern, Switzerland.

Sam studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he was awarded the Chartered Surveyors Vocal Prize, and is a graduate of Bath Spa University.

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