Sam Hird - Baritone

Baritone Sam Hird is a Jette Parker Artist at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He has just made his Main Stage debut as Baron Duphol in La Traviata and will soon go onto play Mityukha in Boris Godunov. Sam debuted with the Royal Ballet and Opera when he played the title role in Telemann's Pimpinone at the ROH's Linbury Theatre. He was a member of the Opera Studio at the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of Peter Savidge and Sir Thomas Allen. In 2024 he made his Wigmore Hall debut as part of a select group of singers from the RCM. In 2024 he won First Place and the Audience Vote at the Clonter Opera Prize. He was joint winner of the Prix Thierry Mermod vocal award at the 2023 Verbier Festival and won First Place, and the Audience/Orchestra Vote at the Peter Hulsen Orchestral Song Award, 2024. Other recent Engagements include Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, Danilo in The Merry Widow and Ramiro in L'Heure Espagnol (all RCM productions). Sam is a Samling Artist.