In the current season performances include FabrizioLa locandiera (Bampton Classical Opera); GuglielmoCosì fan tutte (Opera Project / Tobacco Factory); SamTrouble in Tahiti (Mid Wales Opera); and GiuseppeThe Gondoliers (English Touring Opera).

Among his most recent highlights are Baritone SoloistWhat Dreams May Come (English Touring Opera); Miles in the Austrian premiere of Stuart MacRae’s Anthropocene and Ibn Hakia Iolanta (Salzburger Landestheater); Mann Zaïde / Adama (Theater Aachen); and Marcello La bohème (Regents Opera).

As a member of the solo ensemble at the Salzburger Landstheater his roles included Harlekin Ariadne auf Naxos, Papageno Die Zauberflöte, Valentin Faust, Sherasmin Oberon, and Joseph Pitt Angels in America by Péter Eötvös. Elsewhere he has performed Prince Yamadori Madama Butterfly, Haly L’italiana in Algeri (Diva Opera); Juan Juliana (Nova Music Opera); Onegin Eugene Onegin (OperaUpClose); Leporello Don Giovanni (Head First Productions); Lumaca La scuola de gelosi (Bampton Classical Opera), Sharpless Madam Butterfly (King’s Head Theatre); The King Eight Songs for a Mad King (Grimeborn Festival, Saint Petersburg Philharmonia); Papageno Die Zauberflöte (Pavilion Opera); Baron Zeta The Merry Widow (Ryedale Festival Opera); Guglielmo Così fan tutte (Pop-Up Opera); The Younger Gentleman Exposition of a Picture (Buxton International Festival); Aeneas Dido and Aeneas (RAO); Fiorello Il barbiere di Siviglia (Cadogan Hall); Ben The Telephone (The Opera Box); and L’horloge comtoise/Le chat L’enfant et les sortileges (BBC Symphony Orchestra, Barbican). He has also covered Torrero Ainadamar (Scottish Opera).

Among his concert appearances are Purcell Ode to Saint Cecilia (Dunedin Consort); Bach Cantatas BWV74 and BWV106 (RAM/Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata Series); Handel Messiah (Johannesburg Concert Orchestra); Bach St. Matthew Passion (Israel Camerata and at Salisbury Cathedral); Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem (St John’s Smith Square), and a European tour of Bach Cantatas as a soloist with the Monteverdi Choir at venues including the Musikverein, Concertgebouw, Kölner Philharmonie, Nikolaikirche Leipzig, and Barbican.

In recital Sam has performed songs by Schubert at St Martin-in-the-fields, London for the Royal Academy’s prestigious Song Circle, Schubert’s Winterreise, Schumann’s Dichterliebe, a recital of Beethoven Songs and French Song recital at the Institut Francais, and two recitals for SONG IN THE CITY with Gavin Roberts.