SAM HIRD
Baritone
“Sam Hird, singing firmly but with a stylish lightness of touch, owned the stage as a Danilo should, his charm both assured and unforced."
OPERA MAGAZINE, JUNE 2024
Baritone Sam Hird is a Jette Parker Artist at the Royal Opera House for the 2025-26 and 2026-27 seasons. He made his Royal Opera debut in May 2025 when he stepped in as cover to play the title role in Telemann’s Pimpinone in the Linbury Theatre. He will make his main stage Covent Garden debut as Baron Douphol in Richard Eyre's production of Verdi's La Traviata.
He’s currently a member of the Opera Studio at the Royal College of Music, where he studies with Peter Savidge and Sir Thomas Allen. He graduated at the RCM with a masters degree in 2024 and was awarded the prestigious Tagore Gold Medal.
Recent roles include Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro and Danilo in The Merry Widow, both at the RCM, and he made his Wigmore Hall debut in 2024.
He won the Clonter Opera Prize and the Peter Hulsen Orchestral Song Competition in 2024, and the Prix Thierry Mermod vocal award at the 2023 Verbier Festival, where he was part of the Atelier Lyrique. He is a Samling Artist and an associate artist with the Sinfonia Smith Square.
Sam performing at the Clonter Opera Prize 2024 – the annual competition for nominees from each of the UK's top music conservatoires. Sam won First Place and the Audience Award
COMING UP
June 2025: Narrator in Monteverdi's Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda with the RCM Opera Studio, directed by Sir Thomas Allen and conducted by Michael Rosewell
January 2026: Baron Douphol in La Traviata and Mityukha in Boris Godunov at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden