is a versatile and sought-after performer originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan. In the 2025 season he returns to the prestigious Adler Fellowship Program at San Francisco Opera, where he made his debut this past fall singing the roles of Christiano in Un Ballo in Maschera and Morales in Carmen. In June 2025, Sam will make his role debut as Schaunard in SFO’s production of La bohème . In March of 2025 Samuel was named a National Finalist of the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition. ​A student of renowned pedagogue Gerald Martin Moore, other recent highlights include singing Papageno with Opera Naples, Tarquinius in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia with the Merola Opera Program, Belcore in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore and Tarquinius with Yale Opera, and Onegin from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at The Music Academy of the West.