About Samuel.
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A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Samuel Kidd, baritone, is establishing himself as a versatile and engaging performer. This season he returns to the prestigious Adler Fellowship Program at San Francisco Opera, where he will sing the role of Schaunard in La Boheme, in addition to appearances with Opera Naples as Papageno. In March, 2025, Samuel was named a National Finalist in the prestigious Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. In the fall of 2024 he made his San Francisco Opera debut singing the roles of Silvano in Un Ballo in Maschera and Morales in Carmen. A student of Gerald Martin Moore, other recent highlights include singing Tarquinius in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia with the Merola Opera Program, Belcore from 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.
While at home on the opera stage, Sam's first love and passion is for art song and recital singing, in particular German Lieder. His 2023 performance in the Merola Opera Program’s Metamorphasis recital was praised for its “cohesive blend of caressing phrases and dynamic intensity” (Classical Voice San Francisco). November 2022 he appeared with the Cincinnati Song Initiative performing Mahler's Kindertotenlieder. In April 2021 he participated in the Caramoor Rising Star program, directed and curated by Steven Blier. He was also featured in the New York Festival of Song's online season in September 2020. At The University of Michigan, he gave two performances of Schubert's Winterreise, as well as Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with the University Symphony Orchestra. Samuel enjoys oratorio and choral singing, having performed the baritone solos in Vaughn Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Haydn’s Creation and Mozart’s Requiem with the Plymouth Oratorio society, and bass solos in Bach’s Mass in B minor and Montiverdi’s 1610 Vespers with Audivi and the Michigan Bach Collective. |
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