BIOGRAPHY

Samuel Lom is a bass-baritone whose work spans opera, concert performance and new music. He trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, following studies at the University of Warwick and Humboldt University in Berlin.

His operatic roles include Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola) and Leporello (Don Giovanni) for Hurn Court Opera; Escamillo (Carmen) and Don Giovanni for Arcadian Opera; and Colline (La bohème) for Oxford Opera. At Iford Arts he performed the Father in Hänsel und Gretel and Prince Yamadori in Madama Butterfly. Further credits include Figaro and the Count in Le nozze di Figaro, Seneca in L’incoronazione di Poppea, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Pluton in Hippolyte et Aricie and Polyphemus in Acis and Galatea.

His concert repertoire includes Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, Haydn’s The Creation and Nelson Mass, Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle, Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, Dvořák’s Stabat Mater, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Tippett’s A Child of Our Time and Howard Goodall’s Eternal Light: A Requiem. He has also performed with the Philharmonia Chorus across Europe.

An advocate of new music, Samuel has created roles in operas by Laurence Panter, Edward Lambert and Mark Springer. He performed the title role in Nicholas Smith’s The Stone God at the Bloomsbury Theatre and curated Music on the Mind, a concert of newly commissioned works exploring mental health, at Milton Court Concert Hall.

Samuel is also a librettist and educator. He has written adapted English translations of Don Giovanni and Hänsel und Gretel for Opera Warwick and Opera Loki, and collaborates with composers on new opera and song projects. He works with soprano and composer Fleur de Bray and is Head of Music & Drama at Ripley Court School.